"German-speaking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... commonplaces of this question that in the past the Germans have always been loyal subjects and never made a revolution. It is alleged that there has never been a German republic. That is by no means conclusively true. The nucleus of Swiss freedom was the German-speaking cantons about the Lake of Lucerne; Tell was a German, and he was glorified by the German Schiller. No doubt the Protestant reformation was largely a business of dukes and princes, but the underlying spirit of ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells
... to share in the blessings which the very presence of Canisius seemed to draw down from Heaven, but the whole German-speaking world clamoured for his possession. The Bishop of Saxony entreated him to come and change the deplorable state of his diocese. Duke Albert, son and successor of William IV., stoutly maintained that he was needed at Ingolstadt, and that he ...
— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone
... rulers troubled themselves little about matters apparently of such minor importance as the languages in which their subjects conversed and read. Even the French did not try to touch the German-speaking inhabitants of Alsace, and Copenhagen could become a centre of German letters, while French maintained itself at the Court of Berlin. All this was changed by the Revolution, and Napoleon was the first deliberately to convert the whole ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various
... settled largely by Germans or German-speaking Austrians: Jesuino Marcondes, Ivahy, Iraty, all founded in 1907; Itapara and Tayo, both founded in 1908; and Vera Guarany, founded ...
— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle |
