 That noble, patient, deep, pious and solid Germany should be at length welded into a nation, and become Queen of the Continent, instead of vapouring, vainglorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefulest...  Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871 - Page 419by Edmund Ollier - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Julian Schmidt - Authors - 1878 - 486 pages
...ber Пфгафе ju geben: „That noble, patient, pious and solid Germany should be at length velved into a nation and become Queen of the Continent instead of vapouring, vain glorious, gesticulating, quarrelsome, restless and oversensitive France, seems to me the hopefullest... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - Authors, Scottish - 1881 - 444 pages
...It was to Carlyle " the hopefullest public fact " that had occurred in his time that such a people " should be at length welded into a nation and become...quarrelsome, restless, and over-sensitive France." The letter was manifestly one-sided, and lacking in the quality of solid, comprehensive judgment. Carlyle's... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - Authors, Scottish - 1881 - 444 pages
...It was to Carlyle " the hopefullest public fact " that had occurred in his time that such a people " should be at length welded into a nation and become...quarrelsome, restless, and over-sensitive France." The letter was manifestly one-sided, and lacking in the quality of solid, comprehensive judgment. Carlyle's... | |
 | 1924 - 902 pages
...lesson honestly. If she cannot, she will get another, and even another; learnt the lesson must be. . . . That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany...restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefulest public fact that has occurred in my time. — I remain, Sir, yours truly, T. Carlyle. Those... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 286 pages
...to Bismarck long prevalent in England. Not a person of ' Napoleonic' ideas. Noble, patient Germany at length welded into a Nation, and become Queen of the Continent. (249.) INDEX. ABKLARD, vii. 172. Adieu, i. 291. Affectation, difference between, and genuine originality,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1892 - 266 pages
...as I read him, is not a person of Napoleonic ideas, but of ideas quite superior to Napoleonic. . . . That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany...restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefulest fact that has occurred in my time. Carlyle seldom wrote with more force, or with more justice.... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 702 pages
...as I read him, is not a person of Napoleonic ideas, but of ideas quite superior to Napoleonic. . . . That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany...restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefulest fact that has occurred in my time. Carlyle seldom wrote with more force, or with more justice.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 608 pages
...fearlessly in our behalf. His letter to the ' Times 'f (November 18th, 1870) ends with the words : — ' That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany...into a nation, and become Queen of the Continent, . . . seems to me the hopefullest public fact that has occurred in my time.' But did these words find... | |
 | John Nichol - Authors, Scottish - 1902 - 282 pages
...as I read him, is not a person of Napoleonic ideas, but of ideas quite superior to Napoleonic. . . . That noble, patient, deep, pious, and solid Germany...restless, and over-sensitive France, seems to me the hopefulest fact that has occurred in my time. Carlyle seldom wrote with more force, or with more justice.... | |
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