The Real BismarckR. F. Fenno, 1898 - 222 ページ |
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
Alsace-Lorraine Ambassador anecdote appeared arms Arnim asked auscultator Berlin Bismarckian boots brother Caprivi caricature caricaturists carriage cellor Chancellor château cuirassiers d'Hérisson death declared decorations Deputy diplomacy diplomatic diplomatist Emperor ex-Chancellor expression eyes father fête forest France Frankfort French Friedrichsruh friends German Göttingen guests hair happy head Herr Busch Herr von Bismarck honour horses hôtel humorist humour hunting Imperial interview iron Jessé journals Jules Favre King Kissingen Kladderadatsch Kniephof later letters Lustige Blätter Malvina marck married Marshal von Moltke military Napoleon Napoleon III never obliged Otto von Bismarck Paris passed Pauline Lucca political present Prince Prince's propos Prussian PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR Reichstag replied represents Sachsenwald Saint Petersburg salon Schönhausen Schwenninger seat sent smoke Szolnok THENEW YORK PUBLIC TILDEN tion took Tyras Varzin Versailles wife William words YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young
人気のある引用
188 ページ - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and , behold , all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
188 ページ - But for me three great wars would not have taken place, eighty thousand men would not have perished, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, widows, would not have been plunged into mourning. I have settled all that with my Creator ; but I have gained little or no joy from all my work.
47 ページ - ... round the cheerful tea-table, let the Neva be frozen as thick as it will.' In the following letter to his brother-in-law, Oscar von Arnim, there are tones the true ring of whose metal tells us of the tender heart and sympathetic nature of the man. ' At this moment I receive the news of the dreadful misfortune •which has overtaken you and Malvina. My first thought was to go to you at once, but I overrated my strength.
19 ページ - ... Like Disraeli, Bismarck was never an able pupil. Bismarck was a "very pretty boy," as was Disraeli. His life in Goettingen "obliged him to run into debts." For years "their memory has pursued and saddened him.
186 ページ - Bismarck will play in this question, all that is to be said is that he is dominated by the fear of a Franco-Russian alliance. Had he an elevated mind and a generous...
214 ページ - After reading what Moltke had written, Bismarck took the pen and added the following:— "I know very well that truth will prevail in the next world; but in the meantime a Field-Marshal himself would be powerless against falsehood in this world. " VON BISMARCK, Chancellor of the Empire. At a certain dinner party which Bismarck gave in 1878, he began to talk about himself, and called himself an old man. His wife interrupted him, saying,— " But you are not an old man; you are only sixty-three!"
108 ページ - ... eyes seem to be starting from his head, and they shine with a melancholy lustre. He then clutches his pencil convulsively, and jots down hurried notes upon his paper. Sometimes he tries to join in the general hilarity, but his laugh has something forced and harsh about it. Suddenly he jumps up in the midst of the uproar caused by Richter's speech, and pulls down the skirts of his tunic with the air of a man who is preparing himself for a severe tussle, and his chest heaves and expands with violent...
47 ページ - No human consolation can touch such a grief, yet there is a natural desire to be near those one loves, when they are suffering, and to mingle one's tears with theirs.
76 ページ - Bismarck would sometimes imagine, as a consequence of the victories which he anticipated, " the transformation of a part of France into a German colony of eight or ten million souls; a kind of neutral territory, without an army, upon which Germany would be satisfied merely to levy taxes.
92 ページ - You have, you who do not smoke, over me, a smoker, this advantage: you are more wide awake; and a disadvantage: you are more inclined to fly off at a tangent, to yield to the first impulse," he pursued with a suspicion of irony.