"Ernst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a similar mental change occur contemporaneously in our greatest naturalist, Carl Ernst von Baer. This gifted and profound thinker and biologist, whose name marks a new epoch in the history of evolution, had in his later years become wholly incompetent even to understand those most ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel
... thirty years ago, Ernst Curtius and several other Germans went there. They were men who had studied Greek history and Greek art and they ...
— Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae • Jennie Hall
... ARNDT, ERNST MORITZ, a German poet and patriot, whose memory is much revered by the whole German people, one of the first to rouse his countrymen to shake off the tyranny of Napoleon; his songs and eloquent appeals went straight to the heart of the nation and contributed powerfully ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... jeunesse,—a saying which is not found in Frederic's works, but which is nevertheless authentic. One of the chief magistrates of the old Hanseatic town of Luebeck, Syndicus Curtius,—the father, we believe, of the two distinguished scholars, Ernst and Georg Curtius,—was at school with the two sons of Chasot, and he remembers these royal words, when they were repeated in all the drawing-rooms of the city where Chasot spent many years of his life. Frederic's friendship for Chasot is well known, for there are ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... dull. I don't know what on earth to do, so I am writing my diary. Besides, I have not written about the row yet. The next afternoon Aunt Alma came just as we were going out and said to Father: Ernst, please let me have a word with you. Now we all know Aunt Alma's let me have a word with you. In plain language it means: I'm going to make a scene. She began: "Ernst, you know I never like these ...
— A Young Girl's Diary • An Anonymous Young Girl |
