"European country" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as I am aware, this tale of "The Lion's Track" is not popularly known in any European country besides Italy; and it is not found in any of the Western versions of the Book of Sindibad, generally known under the title of the "History of the Seven Wise Masters," how, then, did it reach Venice, and become among the people "familiar in ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... increased commerce with the East and a new commerce with the West, the awakened spirit of enterprise and the new discoveries widened the radius of trade of each nation. Men learned to be bold, and the merchants of each European country carried their national commerce over all parts of Europe and far beyond its limits to the newly discovered lands. English, Dutch, French, and Danish merchants met in the ports of the White Sea and in ...
— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney
... were all fond of Dicky, and such a thing has never happened, so far as I am aware, in any European country. My own private secretary murdered in broad daylight and ...
— The Illustrious Prince • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 20% forest and woodland: 1% other: 78% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: subject to earthquakes and volcanic activity Note: strategic location between Greenland and Europe; westernmost European country; more land covered by glaciers than ...
— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... operating through every spiritual medium, poetry, oratory, philosophy, political agitation. In the sunshine of the eighteenth century they finally matured, and at its close the rejuvenation of the Jewish race was an accomplished fact in every European country. Eagerly its sons entered into the new intellectual and literary movements of the nations permitted to enjoy another period of efflorescence, and Jewish humor has conquered a place for ...
— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles
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