EDINBURGH AND ITS SOCIETY IN 1838. IN SIX PARTS. BY SEBALDUS NASEWEIS, Esq. PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. 1838. REFLECTIONS ON MODERN ATHENS. PART I. Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein, Old German Ballad. THE family of the Naseweisen, from which I descend, were of obscure origin, but of great antiquity; and their original stamp and habits have remained with little alteration from long before the time of Charlemagne. They have since spread over the whole of the civilized world into various distinct branches, and came in numbers from the Continent to Britain during the Saxon era. They have multiplied to a great degree in this island, are distinguished by different characteristics, and vast A |