A Short History of Germany Quotes

“Baron Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen had just returned from St. Petersburg, where he had been Prussian ambassador. He was a conservative of the extreme type, hated and feared by the liberal and national party no less than Metternich. But no man better than he comprehended the policy of Austria, and all the complicated threads composing”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“The dream of the people, like that of Hermann eighteen hundred years before, was of a German UNITY;”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Prussian people who converted their whole male population into an army and their country into an arsenal, and with one voice, and animated by one heart, refused longer to bear the degradation put upon them by their King.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“It was not the people of Prussia who bartered their allegiance to the fatherland for peace and for Hanover. It was their King and princes who brought this stain upon them, and their beautiful Queen Louise, mother of the late Emperor William, had pleaded in vain with the King to pursue a loyal and patriotic course. The”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Even the Pyramids were made to serve his consummate art and ambition! Although”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“treaty of Campo Formio was signed in 1797, Napoleon had won fourteen battles, and had subjugated Italy.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“The German Empire had in its best time existed by grace of God and force of circumstances, more than by reason of a sound and perfect organism.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“this Golden Age in Germany music, too, had become a great art, with such immortal names as Mozart, Gluck, Haydn, and Beethoven; and the period of great orchestration also had commenced.[1]”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“It is not to be supposed that Frederick felt much sympathy with the free young Republic established in America. And if he sent a sword of honor to Washington in 1783, it was because he recognized the greatness of the man; and perhaps, too, because he felt a malicious pleasure in the humiliation of George III.! The”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“The weaklings were winnowed out by these great storms, and the chastened souls of those who survived knew little of pleasure.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Frederick was now called "the Great" throughout Europe; and Prussia took her place among the "Five Great Powers." The”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Philip V. was left upon the throne of Spain, with the condition that the crowns of Spain and France should never be united. The”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Frederick William of Brandenburg, the "Great Elector.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Ferdinand died in 1564 the great majority of the German people had become Protestants.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“this admirable woman, in her intense desire to drive heretic Jews out of her country, was prevailed upon, by her confessor Torquemada, to establish the Inquisition in Spain. Believing”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“over a hundred towns had combined together in what was called the "Hanseatic League." This”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“what should have been their first care—the unity and prosperity of their own nation;”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“from the vast plains lying between Russia and China there had poured into Europe a terrible race of beings called Huns. They seemed more like demons than men. Insensible alike to fear, to hunger, thirst, or cold, they appeased their ferocious appetites upon wild roots and raw meat.”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“Aryan race occupied Europe north of Greece and Italy: the Keltic, the western; the Teutonic, the central; the Slavonic the eastern; and these, in turn, had ramified into new subdivisions or tribes. To”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany

“The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan;”
― Mary Platt Parmele, A Short History of Germany