Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.

Ere long a portion of the village spire began to appear among the trees, and the gilded telltale on its top, in which the slippery politician, and the fair weather friend, and the doubting disciple, who is blown about by every wind of doctrine, may behold a happy emblem of life and practice.

the striking but untranslatable epithet, which the celebrated Mendelssohn applied to the great founder of the Critical Philosophy Der alleszermalmende Kant, that is, the all-becrushing, or rather the all-to-nothing-crushing Kant.