"Goll" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... multitude of such boxes were sent out through all Germany, even to Denmark and Livonia: "they were in every hand," he says. Graf Solms had such boxes made of tin with the name Jacobi inside. Both Martin and Werner instance the request[8] of a Protestant vicar, Johann David Goll in Trossingen, for a "Lorenzodose" with the promise to subscribe to the oath of the order, and, though Protestant, to name the Catholic Franciscan his brother. According to a spicy review[9] in the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek[10] these snuff-boxes were sold in Hamburg wrapped ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer |
