"Von Bismarck" Quotes from Famous Books
... large American colony in Paris was looking forward to this debut with a natural pride, and Delsarte with the calm assurance of his favorite's triumph. Alas! we all reckoned without taking King William, the Crown Prince, the Fed Prince, von Moltke, and von Bismarck into our account. We never fancied, on that bright July morning, that Krupp of Essen's cannon and the needle-gun were soon to give laws to Paris. But inter arma silent artes as well as leges. Nearer and deadlier tragedies than those of Corneille and Racine were soon to be enacted; ... — Delsarte System of Oratory • Various
... accommodating | | Page 49: darndest replaced with darnedest | | Page 50: eying replaced with eyeing | | Page 60: identfy replaced with identify | | Page 71: 'Bismarck's birthplace' replaced with | | 'Bismarck's birth-date'. Logic being that Otto | | von Bismarck was born April 1st 1815, and the | | author is referring to a date. | | Page 72: heaquarters replaced with headquarters | | Page 83: goggled-despatch riders replaced with | | goggled despatch riders | | Page 91: retaurant replaced ... — On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith |