Heinrich HeineГенрих Гейне
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
3. Странное дело! Во все времена негодяи старались маскировать свои гнусные поступки преданностью интересам религии, нравственности и любви к отечеству.
3. It is a strange thing! In every age scoundrels have tried to cloak their vile deeds in devotion to the interests of religion, morality, and love of country.
From Ueber den Denunzianten. Eine Vorrede zum dritten Theile des Salons · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedHeine’s retort to the attacks on him and his friends becomes a maxim: “in every age scoundrels have tried to cloak their vile deeds” in religion, morality, and love of country.
Original · GermanSonderbar! Und immer ist es die Religion, und immer die Moral, und immer der Patriotismus, womit alle schlechten Subjecte ihre Angriffe beschönigen! Sie greifen uns an, nicht aus schäbbigen Privatinteressen, nicht aus Schriftstellerneid, nicht aus angebohrnem Knechtsinn, sondern um den lieben Gott, um die guten Sitten und das Vaterland zu retten.
Source text: de.wikisource.orgIn English · Gilbert Cannan, 1910Strange ! It is always religion, always morality, always patriotism, with which the mauvais sujets justify these attacks. They attack us not from a private interest, not from literary envy, not from native slavishness, but to save God, good morals, and the Fatherland.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Ueber den Denunzianten. Eine Vorrede zum dritten Theile des Salons (Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1837), against Wolfgang Menzel, First edition, p. 12 (Wikisource's transcription); Karpeles, Heinrich Heine's Memoirs, vol. II, Book IV, ch. X ("Young Germany").
Heine, answering Menzel's denunciation of Young Germany: "Strange! And always it is religion, and always morality, and always patriotism, with which all bad characters gloss over their attacks!" They attack us, he goes on, to save God, good morals, and the fatherland. Tolstoy keeps the exclamation and the three words and makes the sentence general: "at all times scoundrels have tried to mask their vile deeds with devotion to the interests of religion, morality, and love of the fatherland". Menzel and the attacks on Heine and his friends drop out. No closer wording was found in Heine, and the form Tolstoy read (perhaps a Russian or English rendering) was not identified.