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# Anecdotes of Great Musicians/Anecdote 53

53.—MOSCHELES' BLUNDER.
One of the most popular of the classical virtuosi was Ignaz Moscheles, whose seventy-six years of life was ended in 1870. A friend of Beethoven, a teacher of Mendelssohn, a great player, teacher, and composer, he exercised a most beneficial influence in the musical world with his strong personality. For twenty years or more, Moscheles made his home in England.
A remark of his made at a dinner table soon after his ​arrival there illustrates the difficulty which foreigners have in conquering the English language. One evening, when the cloth had been removed and the hostess had asked him what fruit he preferred, he hastily referred to the knowledge of English he had secured by a study of the dictionary, and politely answered that he wished to be helped to "some sneers."
This answer produced a burst of laughter on the part of the guests, who could not contain their merriment at the dilemma in which the musician's ignorance of the language had placed him. Moscheles hastened to explain. It seemed that on searching for English sentences he had learned that the idiom "not to care a fig" was synonymous with the verb "to sneer," and so supposed that in asking for "sneers" he had the right word for fig. Turn about is fair play; we must have our laugh at the foreigners, as they have so much fun at our expense.
# Anecdotes of Great Musicians/Anecdote 55

55.—PREJUDICE.
We hate to be convinced that our preconceived opinions and hastily uttered statements are not in accord with the facts of the case. Musicians and musical critics (the two terms are not always synonymous) are like the ​rest of the world in this. Few of us like to reform our ideas and retract our dogmatic statements even in the face of overwhelming proof that we are wrong.
An amusing incident illustrating this peculiarity of the human race occurred during the rivalry that existed between Sontag and Malibran. The former lady was a German. It was a favorite idea of the friends of her rival that only Italians, or those of the Italian school, could do any singing worthy of the name; hence, Sontag could not sing.
So great was the prejudice against German singers in their own country that Frederick the Great, when asked to hear Mara sing, declared: "What! Hear a German singer! I should as soon expect to derive pleasure from the neighing of my horse!"
It is true that Germany has produced fewer great singers than other musical countries. While Germany boasts Devrient, Titiens, Lucca, Mara and Sontag, for every one of these we have a score of non-German singers of equal or greater worth.
An Italian critic who had not heard Sontag was, in spite of this prejudice against German singers, persuaded to go and hear her one night. After listening a short time, he rose from his seat and made preparations to leave the house.
"What, you are not going?" said his friend, who was an admirer of the German songstress. "Stay a little longer and you will be convinced that a German can sing."
"I know it," answered the Italian; "therefore I go!"
# Anecdotes of Great Musicians/Anecdote 5

5.—DISCOVERING A NIGHTINGALE.
Many years ago, in 1827, there lived in an almshouse in the old city of Stockholm a little six-year-old girl, who had been put in charge of an old woman who, by the way, was none too kind to the orphan in her care. When her guardian went out to earn her daily pittance, this little maid was locked in the house to prevent her wandering about; and so the lonesome little Johanne was deprived of the bright sunshine and the sight of the beautiful trees and flowers so beloved by every Swedish heart.
​One day she had worked over the little tasks assigned her until she was tired, and oh! how she longed to get out into the open air. But no, the door was locked. No wonder she poured out her childish grief in tears. Soon her sole companion caught her eye, and, taking up her half-starved pussy, she rocked her pet until they both fell asleep. When she awoke the sun had gone well down. Fearing the scolding she was sure to get when the old dame came home, the child caught up her work and began to sing in a sweet voice that seemed far too old for a girl of her age.
While she went on with her singing it happened that a lady of high rank was passing the house; and so struck was she by the clear, sweet tones, that she stopped her carriage to listen. On caroled the little songstress, perfectly unconscious of her audience, till she was startled by a knock at the door. She could not open it, but some kind neighbor told the fair visitor about the little prisoner. The kind-hearted lady came back afterward and secured the child admission to a school and later to the Royal Theater classes. As the girl grew older her talent developed, until as the "Swedish Nightingale" she was known the world over. Do you recognize in her—Jenny Lind?
# Anecdotes of Great Musicians/Anecdote 54

54.—JEALOUSY IN THE FAMILY.
A musical artist without any jealous feeling toward his brother musicians would be almost as rare as one who does not think himself perfect in his chosen art. But when jealousy enters a family, one might expect it to meet the fate of the "house divided against itself." An extreme case of this kind may be noted in a tenor named Ansari and his wife, who lived about a hundred years ago. These kindred spirits were so enraged, if perchance one secured more applause than the other, that they were known to employ men to hiss each other off the stage!
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Streit

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​ Streit, m., ‘dispute, quarrel, strife,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. strît, m.; allied to ModHG. streiten, MidHG. strîten, OHG. strîtan, str. vb., ‘to quarrel, fight.’ OHG. einstrîti, ‘stubborn,’ OSax. strîd, ‘zeal,’ and OIc. strîðr, ‘stubborn, severe, strong,’ show that Streit has gone through the same development of meanings as Krieg (lit. ‘exertion’); OIc. strîð, n., ‘pain, grief, oppression,’ is, however, remarkable (yet comp. the cognates of ModHG. tapfer). Pre-historic cognates of the Teut. root strîd (for strî’, srî?) are wanting; yet comp. Sans. sridh, ‘enemy.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Strick

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​ Strick, m., ‘string, cord,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. stric (ck), m. Its connection with Strang or streichen is dubious; it is rather related to Sans. sraj, ‘winding, twisted ornament,’ or Sans. rajju, ‘string’ (for Teut. str from Aryan sr, comp. Schwester, Strom, and strecken). — ModHG. stricken, ‘to knit,’ from MidHG. stricken, OHG. stricchen, ‘to lace, clasp, plait,’ is probably a derivative.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Striegel

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​ Striegel, m., ‘currycomb,’ from the equiv. MidHG. strigel, OHG. strigil, m.; to this striegeln, ‘to comb,’ from the equiv. MidHG. strigelen, is allied. The word is borrowed from Lat. strĭgĭlis, ‘scraper (used by bathers), flesh-brush’ (Ital. stregghia, streglia, Fr. étrille, ‘currycomb’). It is scarcely related directly to streichen (Aryan root strik, strig).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Strauch

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​ Strauch, m., ‘shrub, bush,’ from the equiv. MidHG. strûch, m. (to which the ModHG. collective Gesträuck is allied); wanting in OHG. Corresponding to Du. struik, ‘shrub’ (also Du. stronk, ‘shrub,’ equiv. to LG. Strunk, with a nasalised root syllable). The stem is not found in other languages; the relation of the cognates of ModHG. straucheln is dubious.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Strauß

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​ Strauß (1.), m., ‘quarrel. conflict, fight,’ from the equiv. MidHG. strûȥ, m.; to this MidHG. striuȥen, ‘to resist,’ AS. strûtian, ‘to quarrel,’ is allied.
Strauß (2.), m., ‘crest, tuft, nosegay,’ from the equiv. late MidHG. *strûȥ, m., which may be inferred from gestriuȥe and striuȥach, ‘cluster of bushes.’
Strauß (3.), m., ‘ostrich,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. strûȥ, m.; it seems to be rather a corruption of late Lat. strûthio, ‘ostrich,’ on which AS. strŷta is based (comp. Ital. struzzo, Fr. autruche, whence E. ostrich), than a permutation of pre-HG. *strûto-. The word may have been borrowed contemporaneously with Pfau. On the other hand, a direct connection with Gr. στρουθίον, or rather ἡ μεγάλη στροῦθος, ‘ostrich’ (στροῦθος, ‘sparrow’), is impossible. Moreover, it is remarkable that the Germans say Vogel Strauß, in the came way as the Fr. autruche (Span. av-estruz) from avistrutio, is liked with Lat. avis.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Strich

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​ Strich, see streichen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Streu

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​ Streu, f., ‘litter, bed of straw,’ from the equiv. MidHG. ströu, f., allied to streuen, from the equiv. MidHG. ströuwen (strouwen), OHG. stręwen (strouwen), wk. vb. To this correspond Goth. straujan, OSax. stręwian, Du. strooijen, AS. streowian, E. to strew. The common Teut. straujan (to which Stroh is allied), whence Ital. sdrajarsi, ‘to stretch away,’ is borrowed, is connected in some inexplicable manner with the Aryan root ster (strō̆), in Lat. sternere, Gr. στορέννυμι, στρώννυμι, and the Sans. root stṛ, ‘to strew.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Strieme

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​ Strieme, m. and f., ‘stripe, streak, scar,’ from MidHG. strieme (streime, strîme), m., ‘stripe’; OHG. strī̆mo (to which strimil, MidHG. strîmel, is allied), ‘stripe,’ is an isolated relic of a Teut.-Aryan root strī̆, which is not found elsewhere.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Straße

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​ Straße, f., ‘street, road,’ from the equiv. MidHG. strâȥe, f., OHG. strâȥa, f.; a common West Teut. term; comp. Du. straat, AS. strœ̂t, E. street, OSwed. strata, ‘road,’ ModSwed. stråt (OIc. strœ́ti and OSwed. strœti are derived from OE.). The form strâta, ‘street,’ was borrowed in the 1st cent. ​(perhaps contemporaneously with Pfund, Sack, Münze, &c.) from MidLat. strâta (scil. via, lit. ‘paved road’) before the Lat. t was softened to d in Rom.; comp. Ital. strada, Span. estrada, Fr. (dial.) étrée, to which OIr, sráth, ‘street,’ is allied.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Streifen

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​ Streifen, m., ‘stripe, streak,’ from late MidHG. streif, m., ‘expedition,’ allied to MidHG. streifen (streipfen), wk. vb., ‘to glide, march, roam’; comp. Du. strippen, ‘to strip off leaves’ (streep, ‘stripe, streak, stroke’). Further cognates are wanting.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lauschen

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​ lauschen, vb., from the equiv. MidHG. (rare) and MidLG. lûschen, wk. vb., ‘to listen, lurk’; the meaning points to the oft-recurring OTeut. stem hlū̆s, ‘to hear,’ so that *hlûskan for *hlûs-skai-, with a derivative sk-, may be assumed. Comp. OHG. hlosên, MidHG. losen, ‘to listen to, hearken,’ OIc. hlus-t, ‘ear.’ Eng. has preserved the cognates in AS. hlyst, f., ‘hearing,’ hlystan, ‘to listen or hearken to,’ E. to list, listen; OHG. lûs-trên, MidHG. lū̆stren, Suab. and Bav. laustern, ‘to hearken,’ MidHG. lusemen, lüsenen, ‘to hearken.’ The OTeut. verbal stem hlus, authenticated by this group, from pre-Teut. klus, has cognate terms in Ind. and Slav.; Ind. crušṭís, f., ‘hearing, obedience’; OSlov. slyšati, ‘to hear,’ sluchŭ, m., ‘hearing,’ Lith. klausà, f., ‘obedience,’ paklùsti, ‘to obey,’ klausýti, ‘to hear.’ To this root klus, ‘to hear,’ a shortened form klu is allied; comp. laut and Leumund. ModHG. lauschen also seems to be connected in a subsidiary manner with MidHG. lôschen, OHG. lôscên, ‘to be hidden, concealed.’ Comp. MidDu. luuschen, ‘to be concealed,’ allied to the equiv. OHG. lûȥȥên (Bav. laußen, ‘to lie in ambush,’ still exists).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/laut

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​ laut, adj., ‘loud,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. lût (for an earlier hlût, Goth. *hlûda-); a common Teut. adj. (comp. Du. luid, AS. hlûd, E. loud), which, like falt, alt, tot, gewiß, traut, zart, -haft, kund, satt, wund, was orig. an old partic. in to (Lat. tus, Gr. τος, Ind. tas). The meaning of *klû-dâ-s, pre-Teut. klû-tó-s, from the root klū̆, ‘to hear,’ is lit. ‘audible, heard.’ Another shade of meaning was assumed by the Aryan partic. in the cognate languages — Sans. çrutás, Gr. κλυτός, Lat. inclŭtus, ‘famous.’ In Teut. also there are traces of the short vowel (hlŭda-), especially in proper names, Ludwig, Lothar, Ludolf, Chlothilde, &c. Moreover, the root klū̆ (Gr. κλύω, ‘I hear,’ κλέος, ‘fame’; Ind. çrávas, ‘fame’; OSlov. sluti, ‘to be called,’ slovo for *slevo, ‘word’; Lat. cluo, clueo, ‘to hear oneself ​called’) is also widely diffused in OTeut.; Goth. hliuma, ‘hearing, ear,’ OIc. hljómr, AS. hleóþor, ‘tone, voice, melody. Comp. lauschen and Leumund.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lauter

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​ lauter, adj., ‘pure, mere,’ from MidHG. lûter, adj., ‘bright, pure, clear’ OHG. lûttar, hlûttar. Since Goth. and LG. tr is not permutated in HG. (comp. zittern, Winter, Eiter, Otter, and bitter), Goth. hlûtrs, ‘pure,’ AS. hlûttor, ‘pure, clear’ (wanting in E.), and Du. louter are corresponding forms. A prim. Teut. adj. perhaps orig. signifying ‘washed’ (like Lat. lautus, lit. ‘washed,’ then ‘splendid, magnificent’). This prim. meaning may be assumed since the Teut. root hlût, preserved only in the adj. lauter, is cognate with Gr. κλυδ and κλύζω, ‘to rinse out, wash, cleanse,’ and κλύδων, ‘beating of the waves.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lassen

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​ lassen, vb., ‘to let, leave,’ from the equiv. MidHG. lâȥen, OHG. lâȥȥan, str. vb.; comp. AS. lœ̂tan, E. to let, Du. laten, OIc. láta, Goth. lêtan; the pre-Teut. form of the common Teut. root lêt, ‘to leave,’ is lêd (with lad as a weaker gradation, comp. laß). The only certain cognate in the other Aryan languages is the Lat. word lassus, ‘faint, languid,’ quoted under laß; hence ‘to relax, release,’ is probably the prim. meaning of the verbal stem. From this, MidHG. lâȥen, both simply and in compounds, evolved the meanings ‘to set free, omit, leave behind,’ &c., as in ModHG.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lau

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​ lau, adj., ‘lukewarm, tepid,’ from the equiv. MidHG. lâ (inflected lâwêr), OHG. lâo (inflected; probably for an earlier *hlâo (Goth. *hlêws); comp. OIc. hlýr, ‘warm, mild,’ Du. lauw. In the non-Teut. languages indubitable cognates are wanting, yet the Rom. cognates of flau (Fr. flou) are derived from OG.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lauern

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​ lauern, vb., ‘to lie in wait,’ from the equiv. late MidHG. lûren, wk. vb.; it corresponds to Scand. lúra, ‘to slumber,’ MidE. lûren, E. to lower, lour. Comp. further MidE. lurken (for lûr ken), E. to lurk, which seems the prim. meaning of the G. and Scand. word. “To the G. term is traced Fr. lorgner, ‘to leer, ogle,’ from which the foreign words Fr. lorgnon, lorgnette, were introduced into G.”
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/laufen

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​ laufen, vb., ‘to run,’ from the equiv. MidHG. loufen, OHG. louffun, str. vb.; from an earlier hlauffan, equiv. to Goth. hlaupan, ‘to run.’ It corresponds to AS. hleápan, str. vb., ‘to run, leap, dance,’ E. to leap, Du. loopen, OIc. hlaupa; a specifically Teut. word common to all the dialects. For the prim. meaning we have absolutely ​no clue (Gr. κραιπνός, ‘swift,’ is not allied to Goth. hlaupan, which may be preferably compared with Lith. klupti, ‘to stumble’). The Teut. root hlaup has a collateral form hlŭp, by gradation hlŏp (MidHG. and ModHG. dial. geloffen, partic.), of which a variant hlaubt appears in Swiss lôpen, ‘to run’ (comp. hüpfen, Bav. hoppen). ModHG. Lauft, plur. Läufte, m., from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. louft, m., ‘course (of time),’ (MidHG. plur. löufte, ‘conjunctures’).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/langsam

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​ ModHG. langsam, adj., ‘slow,’ is one of the earliest forms ending in sam (in Goth. only lustusams, ‘delightful, longed for’); AS. longsum, ‘tedious, continuous,’ OSax. langsam. In OHG., besides langsam, ‘lasting a long time,’ there exists a form langseimi, ‘lingering,’ and in MidHG. lancsam, adj. and adv., ‘slow,’ as well as lancseime, ‘lingering, slow’; in ModHG. langseim became obsolete, and its meaning has been transferred to langsam.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lasch

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​ lasch, adj., ‘slack,’ from MidHG. and OHG. *lasc; comp. OIc. lǫskr (Goth. *lasqs-), adj., ‘slack, weary’; formed with a suffix sk from the root laß, lassen (Goth. *lasqa- would represent *latsqa-). Yet it is not improbable, since lasch is first recorded in ModHG., that the root was borrowed from a Rom. class similar in sound (comp. Fr. lâche, Ital. lasco,‘idle’).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/lateinisch

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​ lateinisch, adj., ‘Latin,’ with the foreign accent, in contrast to the E. term. The diphthong of the second syllable proves that the adj. was naturalized previous to ModHG. MidHG. latînisch, OHG. latînisc, which was adopted in the OHG. period, as is proved by the non-permutation of t (latînus) to HG. ȥȥ, was used chiefly in the monastic schools, in which Latin was cultivated as the language of the Church.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Origen/Origen Against Celsus/Book VII/Chapter LVII

Chapter LVII.
After this, as though his object was to swell the size of his book, he advises us “to choose Jonah rather than Jesus as our God;” thus setting Jonah, who preached repentance to the single city of Nineveh, before Jesus, who has preached repentance to the whole world, and with much greater results. He would have us to regard as God a man who, by a strange miracle, passed three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; and he is unwilling that He who submitted to death for the sake of men, He to whom God bore testimony through the prophets, and who has done great things in heaven and earth, should receive on that ground honour second only to that which is given to the Most High God. Moreover, Jonah was swallowed by the whale for refusing to preach as God had commanded him; while Jesus suffered death for men after He had given the instructions which God wished Him to give. Still further, he adds that Daniel rescued from the lions is more worthy of our adoration than Jesus, who subdued the fierceness of every opposing power, and gave to us “authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.” Finally, having no other names to offer us, he adds, “and others of a still more monstrous kind,” thus casting a slight upon both Jonah and Daniel, for the spirit which is in Celsus cannot speak well of the righteous.