[Gutenberg 31886] • Pretty Michal

[Gutenberg 31886] • Pretty Michal
Authors
Jókai, Mór
Publisher
Createspace
Tags
hungary -- fiction
ISBN
9781495389160
Date
2004-08-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.24 MB
Lang
en
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Wherein is shown how sagely the Rev. Master Frohlich brought up his motherless daughter, pretty Michal. In the days when the Turkish Sultan ruled in Hungary as far as Ersekujvar and Eger, the German Kaiser from Eger to the Zips country, and George Rakoczy, Prince of Transylvania, from Zips to the Szeklerland-all three of whom were perpetually fighting among themselves, sometimes two against one and sometimes all together indiscriminately, so that the inhabitants had a very lively time of it-in those days (somewhere about 1650) the learned and reverend Master David Frohlich was the pride of the Keszmar Lyceum and Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy there. Master Frohlich knew everything which could be reasonably expected of a man. He knew how to calculate solar and lunar eclipses. He knew how to take the old town-clock to pieces when it got out of order and put it together again. He could fix the weather for a whole year beforehand. He understood the aureus calculus and could cast a horoscope with any man living. He knew by heart which trades could be carried on best in each of the twelve months. He had at his fingers' ends the arcana and secret properties of all herbs and plants, could explain sympathies and antipathies, nay, he could be implicitly trusted in the manufacture of amulets."