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Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German author. He was bom in 1744 and died in 1803. In 1762 he went to Konigsberg, procured an. appointment in Frederick's College, and was permitted by Kant to hear all his lectures gratis. From 1764 to 1769 he was an assistant teacher at the cathedral school of Riga, with which office that of a preacher was connected, and it was during this period that he published his Fragments on German Literature. In 1769 he resigned his post in order to travel, and became travelling tutor to the Prince of Holstein-Oldenburg. But in Strasburg he was prevented from proceeding by a disease of the eyes; and here he became acquainted with Goethe, on whom he had a very decided influence.
Besides his Fragments, his Critical Woods (Kritische Walder) and other productions had gained him a considerable reputation, and he was appointed in 1771 court preacher, superintendent, and consistorial counsellor at Buckeburg, and in 1776 to the same offices at Weimar. In 1801 he was made president of the high consistory, a place before only given to noblemen. He was subsequently made a noble by the Elector of Bavaria.
As a theologian Herder contributed to a better understanding of the historical and antiquarian part of the Old Testament. His Geist der Hebraischen Poesie (Spirit of Hebrew Poetry) is highly valued. He did much also for the better appreciation of the classical authors. His greatest work is his Ideen zur Philosophic der Geschichte der Menschheit (Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Man
1785). He was the author of some popular songs, and of an epic entitled The Cid.
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Originally, franking was the right of sending letters free of charge - a frank being the signature of a person possessing the privilege of sending letters free of postage. It was claimed for letters both sent and received by the House of Commons in 1660, and fully legalised in 1764 when all members of both Houses were allowed to send 10 and receive 15 letters a day gratis. The privilege was withdrawn on the introduction of the penny postage in 1840. Today the term is most commonly applied to the mechanical stamping of letters and parcels in place of fixing an adhesive stamp.
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Gratis is a township in Preble County, Ohio, USA.
Gratis is a village in Preble County, Ohio, USA.
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Gratis is Latin for free of charge
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Drinking at Freeman's Quay is English slang for drinking without charge, drinking gratis.
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