A HISTORY OF BOHEMIAN

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and find (in heaven and hell) an example in the Learn above all to love your good and a warning in the evil. Come here

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merit as a writer depends mainly on the Sldva," though he was a copious writer of prose as well as poetry. A small German pamphlet by Kollar entitled, Ueber die literarische Wechselseitigkeit zwischen den verschiedenen Stdmmen und Mundarten der Slavischen Nation ("On the Literary Solidarity of the various Branches of the Slav Nation "), which appeared in 1837, caused great sensation, and for a time acquired In Bohemian Kollar wrote, even political importance. besides his Sldvy Deera, an account of his travels in Germany and Italy and several archeeological works. Of these, the Staroitalia Slavjanskd (" Slavic Ancient Italy "), written in the last year of Kollar's life, and dedicated to the Emperor Francis Joseph, is the largest. The author endeavoured, on the slightest evidence and by means of the most fantastical suppositions, to prove that a large part of the population of Italy — particularly in the north — is of Slav origin. Kollar is here constantly carried away by his exuberant imagination, and the book has no scientific value. It indeed, scarcely an exaggeration to call Kollar's recently pubtissue of absurdities. lished correspondence with Jungmann, Safafik, Palack^, and others has great interest. While Kollar devoted to the revival of the Bohemian language and literature his enthusiastic eloquence and poetic talents, Safafik employed for the same purpose Kollar's

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