Excerpt from Journal of a Residence at Vienna and Berlin: In the Eventful Winter 1805-6 In November 1802 he was elected a member of the Speculative Society of Edinburgh - a body of young collegians who met weekly to debate ques tions of literature and politics, but who counted amongst their members not a few names destined to be illustrious in after-llfe. Lord henry petty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.