"Zu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Das ist mein Schmuck und Ehrenkleid; Damit will ich vor Gott besteh'n Und zu der ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot
... ungleich gluecklicherm Geschicke, Gebeut die Koenigin zarter Pein, Hin, Deine schoenen Augenblicke, Zum Opfer noch einmal zu weihn, Den Holzstoss liebt man aufzugeben, Der Altar glaenzt, des Weihrauchs Duefte Durchdringen schon die weiten Luefte, Das Opfer wird gedoppelt schoen, Durch Amors Glut ist es verflogen, Und das ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... BRUNO BAUER, Die Faehigkeit der heutigen Juden und Christen, frei zu werden (The Capacity of Modern Jews and Christians to become free), ...
— Selected Essays • Karl Marx
... asked the pianist to join them in another drink. Whiskey was sent up to the platform, and the musician drank it at a gulp, his right hand purling over the figuration of "Auf dem Wasser zu Singen." But he took no water. Then making them a little bobbing, startled bow, he began playing. Again it was something of Chopin. On his lean features there was a look of detachment; and the watchers were struck with the interesting forehead, the cheeks etched with ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker
... dirty trowsers and jacket, with my little square of white cloth on the collar; and I began to find the eloquent blood mangling in my cheeks, and tingling in my ears; but their kindly feelings got the better of a gentle propensity to laugh, and the youngest said—"Sie sind gerade zu rechter zeit gekommen:" when, finding that her German was Hebrew to me, she tried the other tack "Vous arrivez a propos, le dejeuner ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... Rechtliche Stellung der Frauen bei den alten Indern (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Muenchen, 1876), ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner
... sixty Mary Legends composed c. 1250 (Brit. Museum Old Roy. 20 B, xiv.), some of which have been published in Suchier's Bibliotheca Normannica; in the Altf. Bibl. See also Mussafia, "Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Marien-legenden" in Sitzungsh. der Wien. Akademie (t. cxiii., cxv., cxix., ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... Gneist, who had been, during a part of Bismarck's career, on very confidential terms with him, I asked what the real trouble was. "Oh,'' said Gneist, "he has eaten too many plover's eggs (Ach, er hat zu viel Kibitzeier gegessen).'' This had reference to the fact that certain admirers of the chancellor in the neighborhood of the North Sea were accustomed to send him, each year, a large basket of plovers' eggs, of which ...
— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White
... translator of the Avesta, had devoted a chapter of his last work, 'Eran, das Land zwischen dem Indus und Tigris,' to the problem in question. We read his chapter, 'Avesta und die Genesis, oder die Beziehungen der Eranier zu den Semiten,' with the warmest interest, and when we had finished it, we put down the book with the very exclamation with which we ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... to one of their most famous chroniclers, have always been noted for their piety ("Fromm waren die Muenchner zu jeder Zeit"), but they have never been celebrated for that virtue of cleanliness which is said to be akin to godliness: indeed, they are known amongst other Bavarians as die dreckigen Muenchner ("the filthy Munichers"); and certain it is that their city is far ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 87, March, 1875 • Various
... Leipzig, 1875, p. 130): "Uns also, wir wiederholen es, ist die Geometrie des Boetius echt, dieselbe Schrift, welche er nach Euklid bearbeitete, von welcher ein Codex bereits in Jahre 821 im Kloster Reichenau vorhanden war, von welcher ein anderes Exemplar im Jahre 982 zu Mantua in die Haende Gerbert's gelangte, von welcher mannigfache Handschriften noch heute vorhanden sind." But against this opinion of the antiquity of MSS. containing these numerals is the important statement of P. Tannery, perhaps the most critical of modern historians of mathematics, ...
— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith
... interrupted. "There were Karl von Goertz, Albrecht Hardman, Adolph zu Sternbern, Karl von Starnack, and Rudolph von Wardberg. We were ...
— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough
... whack! thump-pet-ty crack! In go the shoe-nails with many a smack. Zu! zu! pull the thread through; Soon will the shoe be, ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various
... mehrere Capitel in Mill's 'Utilitarianism' gelesen and das Wort happiness mehr als einmal gefunden: hatte ich eine Definition dieses vielumworbenen Wortes irgend Jemand zu geben, ich wurde sagen (I have been reading several chapters of Mill's 'Utilitarianism' to-day, and met with the word 'happiness' more than once; if I had to give anybody a definition of this much debated word, in other say): go and see the Huxley family at Swanage; and ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... disappeared, but all round the church door, and picturesquely scattered upon the pavement in every direction, lay boys asleep, with their heads upon their arms. As we passed laughing through the midst of these slumberers, they rose and followed us with cries of "Mi tiri zu! Mi tiri zu!" (Take me down! Take me down!) They ran ahead, and fell asleep again in our path, and round every corner we came upon a sleeping boy; and, indeed, we never got out of that atmosphere of slumber till we returned to the steamer for Venice, when ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells
... salt lake, and drained by a river to the northward—in comfortable houses, built like the tembes of Unyamuezi. When killing a cow, they kneel down in an attitude of prayer, with both hands together, held palm upwards, and utter Zu, a word the meaning of which he did not know. I questioned him to try if the word had any trace of a Christian meaning—for instance, a corruption of Jesu—but without success. Circumcision is not known ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke
... occurrence. The intercourse which had been established during the period of liberation was not interrupted afterwards. Sometimes, when the scabini of a German town, having to pronounce judgment in a new or complicated case, declared that they knew not the sentence (des Urtheiles nicht weise zu sein), they sent delegates to another city to get the sentence. The same happened also in France;(26) while Forli and Ravenna are known to have mutually naturalized their citizens and granted them full rights in ...
— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin
... wise," "wisdom," "open of ear," "broad of ear," and "to make, of a house," the last probably referring to the design rather than to the actual building. Under the name of /Dim-sara/ he was "the creator of the writing of the scribes," as /Ni-zu/, "the god who knows" (/zu/, "to know"), as /Mermer/, "the speeder(?) of the command of the gods"—on the Sumerian side indicating some connection with Addu or Rimmon, the thunderer, and on the Semitic side with Enu-restu, who was one of the ...
— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Theophilus G. Pinches
... von Jemand und Niemand. 7. Tragoedia von Julio und Hippolyto. 8. Eine sehr klaegliche Tragoedia von Tito Andromico und hoffertigen Kayserinn, darinnen denkwuerdigen Actiones zu befinden. 9. Ein lustig Pickelherings-Spiel von der schoenen ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 42, Saturday, August 17, 1850 • Various
... kuehn die Brust, Und empor das Auge zu dem Himmel, Hoch die Fahne! Hoch zum Himmel! Hoeher ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... cantos with the Dallas Transcript in the British Museum (Zur Textueberlieferung von Byron's Childe Harold, Cantos I., II. Leipsic, 1896); and I am indebted to the same high authority for information with regard to the Seventh Edition (1814) of the First and Second Cantos. (See Bemerkungen zu Byron's Childe Harold, Engl. Stud., ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... saluted. "Zu Befehl, Herr Hauptmann," he deferred, and the prisoner was thrust down the bank. The old mother, her head averted, moaned softly. The old man, upholding her, smiled yet ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... the Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States.") The many generous interventions of the Vatican on behalf of persecuted Jews have also been omitted partly for a similar reason (see Stern: "Urkundliche Beitraege ueber die Stellung der Paepste zu den Juden") and partly because they have very little direct bearing on the diplomatic activities of the Great Powers during the ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... Sprache ueberhaupt ein Priester. Als eigner Stamm der Meder werden sie ausdruecklich von Herodot erwaehnt. Zoroaster war nicht der Stifter, sondern nur der Reformator der Magier oder vielmehr ihrer Lehrsaetze. Daher widersetzten sich die zu seiner Zeit vorhandenen Magier anfangs seinen Neuerungen und werden von ihm verstucht. Nachdem sie seine Verbesserungen angenommen hatten, organisirte er auch ihre inneren Einrichtungen und theilte sie in Lehrlinge, Meister und vollendete Meister. Ihr Studium und ...
— Mysticism and its Results - Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy • John Delafield
... of the texts was by Pater J. N. Strassmaier in the Verhandlungen des V Internationalen Orientalistischen Congresses zu Berlin, 1881. In the Beilage he gave the lithographed text of one hundred and nine tablets under the title of Die altbabylonischen Vertraege aus Warka. He made many important observations upon their character and style, and gave a valuable ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... refer the reader who wishes to study the Cathedral in all its parts, to the following works: Grandidier, Essais historiques et topographiques sur l'eglise Cathedrale de Strasbourg, Strasb. 1782, in 8o.—H. Schreiber, Das Muenster zu Strassburg, Freib. 1828, in 8o, avec 11 lithographies gr. in-fol.—Vues pittoresques de la Cathedrale de Strasbourg, dessins par Chapuy et texte par Schweighaeuser, 3 livr. in-fol. Strasb. 1827. La Cathedrale de Strasbourg et ses details, ...
— Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg • Anonymous
... Das Roemische Inquisitionsverfahren in Deutschland bis zu den Hexenprocessen (Leipzig, 1902), ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner
... die Inventur meines Lebens gemacht. Es war gross, brav, wacker, tapfer und glanzend genug. Eine kunftige Zeit wird mir gerecht zu warden wissen. ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter
... manifestation. He cries, Das Ding haben! das will ich, das will ich, das will ich, das Spiel moecht ich haben! (Have the thing! I want it, I should like the game.) To be sure, when one says "komm, ich knoepfs dir zu" (come, I will button it for you), the child comes, and says, as an echo, ich knoepfs dir zu (I will button it for you), evidently meaning, "Button it for me"! He also confounds zu viel (too much) ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... will get a few broken commonplaces—"Human life has sorrow;" "They who meet must part;" "He that is born must die;" "It is foolish to count the years of a child that is gone, but a woman's heart will indulge in follies;" and the like. So the noble words of a noble Hohenzollern—"Lerne zu leiden ohne Klagen"—had found many responsive minds among us, long before they ...
— Bushido, the Soul of Japan • Inazo Nitobe
... Methode sein, welche das hoechste subjektive Wohlbefinden mit der wertwollsten biologischen Leistung zu vereinigen sucht." ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... Lectures on Political Economy (1831), No. 1, and covered by the proposed term "catalactics," is by far too narrow. Similarly, Macleod, Elements of Political Economy, 1858, I, 11. A like objection may be raised to the earlier title of Pritzwitz's book: Die Kunst reich zu werden,—the art of growing rich. On the other hand, Dunoyer, Liberte du Travail (1845), L. IX, ch. I, goes too far altogether: "not only in what manner a nation grows rich, but according to what laws it best succeeds, in the execution of ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • William Roscher
... May, 1700. The ninety-three members of which it was composed set out in carriages and drove by Strasburg to Ulm, there they embarked and sailed to Cracow, whence the journey was continued on rafts. [FOOTNOTE: M. Furstenau, Zur Geschichte der Music und des Theaters am Hofe zu Dresden.] So much for artistic tours at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Frederick Augustus (II of Saxony and III of Poland, 1733-1763) dissolved the Polish band, and organised a similar body which ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... train my ear to catch readily the popular idioms, I found that I must fill out my writing and reading by contact with men. After roving the streets of German cities, I packed a knapsack and set out upon the country-roads. I was, as the Germans say, gut zu Fuss, a stout walker, and I learned to employ for my longer expeditions the Bummel-Zug, an institution I commend highly to all in my situation. The Bummel-Zug is simply a "way" freight-train, to which in my time was attached ...
— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer
... die Angen zu, Dann hoer' ich's singen, rauschen, Seh' Schiffe zieh'n in sonn'ger Ruh', Den Wind ...
— Roumania Past and Present • James Samuelson
... mit Gewalt ein armes Christenkind Dem Bunde seiner Tauf' entreisst! Denn ist Nicht alles, was man Kindern thut, Gewalt? Zu sagen: ausgenommen, was die ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 3: Condorcet • John Morley
... the state of war and to secure peace, while other qualities have a contrary tendency. In the eighteenth century even Immanuel Kant's ideal ethics had—so far as can be seen—a similar origin. Shortly before the foundation of his definitive ethics, Kant wrote his Idee zu einer allgemeinen Weltgeschichte (1784), where—in a way which reminds us of Hobbes, and is prophetic of Darwin—he describes the forward-driving power of struggle in the human world. It is here as with ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel
... that salt of poetry, without which all the more serious charm is lacking to the imaginative world. Still with something of the old religious earnestness of his childhood, he set himself—Sich im Denken zu orientiren—to determine his bearings, as by compass, in the world of thought—to get that precise acquaintance with the creative intelligence itself, its structure and capacities, its relation ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume One • Walter Horatio Pater
... Gibt uns Mut zu frischem Tun, Gibt uns Muesse, um am Herde Sonder Sorge auszuruhn. Aus des Bodens Scholle ziehen Wir des Lebens bestes Mark, Aus des Bodens Kraft erbluehen Die Geschlechter frei ...
— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle
... iii, pp. 487-625—cites (p. 622; cf. also p. 517) the geologist R. von Drasche thus: "Layers of tuff [or tufa—a volcanic rock formed of agglutinated volcanic earth or scoria] are also exposed (Fragmente zu einer Geologie der Insel Luzon, pp. 29-31) at many points between Aringay and Benguet, but these tuffs toward the interior, even at Galiano, are 'no longer earthy, but quite hard, crystalline, and sandstone like.'" This probably explains Martin's description ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624 • Various
... this dangerous undertaking he was three times brought to trial for lese majeste, and spent a year as a prisoner in a Prussian fortress. In 1907 he figured in a libel suit brought by General Kuno von Moltke, late Military Governor of Berlin, who, together with Count Zu Eulenburg and Count Wilhelm von Hohenau, one of the Emperor's Adjutants, had been mentioned by Harden in his paper as members of the so-called Camarilla or "Round Table" that sought to influence the Emperor's ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... Werke./ Herausgegeben/ von/ Dr. Adrian,/ ordentlichem ffentlichem Professor der neueren Litteratur an der/ Universitt zu Giessen./ Erster Theil./ Lord Byron's Leben./ Mit dem Bildniss, einem Facsimile der Handschrift und der/ Abbildung des Stammsitzes Lord Byron's./ Frankfurt am Main./ Gedruckt und verlegt von Johann David ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. - Poetry • George Gordon Byron
... us. We could hear distinctly the hoarse shouts of their officers as they ordered "Vorwarts, Vorwarts, Schneller," while the poor unfortunate privates dismayed by the deadly blast would groan "nein, nein." Then we would hear "Wir sollen Ihr lehren Ihre Canadian Schwein! Uns Neuve Chapelle, zu sagen." "We'll teach you Canadian swine to ...
— The Red Watch - With the First Canadian Division in Flanders • J. A. Currie
... repraesentirt (bei vorlaeufigem Ausschluss von Melanesien schon) einen Flaechenraum, der alles Aehnliche auf dem Globus intellectualis weit uebertrifft (von Hawaii bis Neu-Seeland, von der Oster-Insel bis zu den Marianen), und wenn es sich hier um Inseln handelt durch Meeresweiten getrennt, ist aus solch insularer Differenzirung gerade das Hilfsmittel comparativer Methode geboten fuer die Induction, um dasselbe, wie biologiseh sonst, hier auf psychologischem Arbeitsfelde zur Verwendung zu bringen." ...
— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous
... ist's den Leu zu wecken, Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; Jedoch das schrecklichste der Schrecken, Das ist der Mensch in ...
— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith
... Wohl ergehen So treib es mich zum Dank dafur; Last du mich deine Werke sehen, So sey mein Ruhmen stets von dir; Und find ich in der Welt nicht Ruh, So steig mein Schmen Hinmel zu." ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... Der Holzschnitt: Handbuecher der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Berlin and Leipzig, 1926 ...
— John Baptist Jackson - 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut • Jacob Kainen
... werden, Bis man mir's Leben geoegnut, Ich waere noch nicht auf Erden, Wie ihr begreifen koennt, Wenn ihr seht, wie sie sich geberden, Die, um etwas zu ...
— The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life • Arthur Schopenhauer
... 'coldness',—his intermixture of humor and buffoonery with pathos. Of this first impression he wrote many years later, in his essay on 'Naive and Sentimental Poetry', as follows: "Durch die Bekanntschaft mit neueren Poeten verleitet, in den Werken den Dichter zuerst aufzusuchen, seinem Herzen zu begegnen ... war es mir unertraglich, dasz der Poet sich hier gar nirgends fassen liesz und mir nirgends Rede stehen wollte. Mehrere Jahre hatte er meine ganze Verehrung, und war mein Studium, ehe ich sein Individuum lieb gewinnen konnte. Ich war noch nicht faehig, ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
... is another hero of legend. When the hearts of the other gods failed them, he alone recovered the Tablets of Fate, stolen by the bird-god Zu from Enlil's palace. He is here recorded to have reigned in ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King
... hands; "Lieutenant Buddenbrock [old Feldmarschall's son] used, in his old days, when himself grown high in rank and dining with the King, to be appealed to as witness for the truth of these stories." [Busching, Beitrage zu der Lebensgeschichte denkwurdiger Personen, v. 19-21. Vol. v.—wholly occupied with Friedrich II. King of Prussia (Halle, 1788),—is accessible in French and other languages; many details, and (as Busching's wont is) few or ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... of the dead, burial and cremation, it is as well to remember Dieterich's warning in Mutter Erde, p. 66, note: "den Versuch, aus der Verbreitung und dem Wechsel der Sitte des Verbrennens und Begrabens fuer meine Untersuchung Schluesse zu gewinnen, habe ich voellig aufgegeben, als ich angesichts der ungeheueren Materialen meines Kollegen von Duhn die Unmoeglicheit solcher Schluesse einsehen musste." In Mr. Lawson's book quoted above it seems to me to be proved that the object of both methods is the ...
— The Religious Experience of the Roman People - From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus • W. Warde Fowler
... his nature, he found the work of teaching very depressing. Engaged in this work, he writes that he still has within him a longing desire to attain to the knowledge of beauty— sehnlich wunschte zur Kenntniss des Schonen zu gelangen. He had to shorten his nights, [181] sleeping only four hours, to gain time for reading. And here Winckelmann made a step forward in culture. He multiplied his intellectual force by detaching from it all flaccid interests. He renounced ...
— The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry • Walter Horatio Pater
... Keny[o]gen, or "double-purpose words." Joined to the words immediately following, it makes the phrase "white-snow woman" (shirayuki no onna);—united with the words immediately preceding, it suggests the reading, "whither-gone not-knowing" (yuku ['e] wa shira[zu]).] ...
— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn
... emphasizes the growth of the material; on May 13. he speaks of its completion at an early date, and on June 8. he could send Melanchthon a printed copy. It was entitled: Von den gutenwerckenn: D. M. L. Vuittenherg. On the last page it bore the printer's mark: Getruck zu Wittenberg bey dem iungen Melchior Lotther. Im Tausent funfhundert vnud zweynitzsgen Jar. It filled not less than 58 leaves, quarto. In spite of its volume, however, the intention of the book for the congregation remained, now however, not only for the narrow ...
— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther
... Freiherr zu Canitz, however, who had succeeded von Buelow as Minister for Foreign Affairs, looked upon Ludwig's lapse with more indulgence. "It is not," he wrote from the Wilhelmstrasse, "the first time by any ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... gestaltet. O, mich hat Hoellenkunst getaeuscht! Mir sandte Der Abgrund den verflecktesten der Geister, Den Luegenkundigsten herauf, and stellt' ihn Als Freund an meiner Seite. Wer vermag Der Hoelle Macht zu widerstehn! Ich zog Den Basilisken auf an meinem Busen, Mit meinem Herzblut naehrt ich ihn, er sog Sich schwelgend voll an meiner Liebe Bruesten, Ich hatte nimmer Arges gegen ihn, Weit offen liess ich des Gedankens Thore, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
... vom /Sued/ zum /Norden/ reicht, Vernimm den /Paean/ der zu deinen Ohren steigt. Du baeckst was /Gallien/ und /Britten/ emsig suchen, Mit /schoepfrischen Genie, originelle/ Kuchen. Des Kaffee's /Ocean/, der sich vor dir ergiesst, Ist suessev als der Saft der vom /Hymettus/ fliesst. Dein Haus ein /Monument/, wie wir den Kuensten lohnen Umhangen ...
— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... Thus, Anthon, Teutschen Landwirthschaft, Th. i. p. 61.:—"Das Land eines jeden Dorfes, einer jeden Germarkung war wirklich getheilt und, wie es sehr wahrscheinlich, alsdan verlost worden. Daher nannte man dasjenige, was zu einem Grunstueke an Aekern, Wiesen gehoerte, ein Los (Sors). Das Burgundische Gesetz redet ausfdruecklich vom Lande das man in Lose erhalten hat (Terra sortis titulo acquisita, Tit. i. Sec. 1.)" Schmeller, in his Bayrishces Wort. B. v. Lud-aigen, also points to the ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 27. Saturday, May 4, 1850 • Various
... of Jizo,' says Akira, taking from a shelf in the temple alcove some much-worn, blue-covered Japanese book. 'A wasan is what you would call a hymn or psalm. This book is two hundred years old: it is called Saino-Kawara-kuchi-zu-sami-no-den, which is, literally, "The Legend of the Humming of the Sai-no-Kawara." And this is the wasan'; and he reads me the hymn of Jizo—the legend of the murmur of the little ghosts, the legend ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
... 339 "Tu-ur ba-zu" appears to be spelled phonetically, but does not sound like a Semitic name. If it were taken as an ideogram it ...
— Egyptian Literature
... der Centralbehorde an den Bund, vom Marz, 1850: Anhang IX der Enthullerngen ueber den Kommunisten-process Zu Koln, p. 79. ...
— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo
... he did not hesitate to make his way through the corridors of the great and suffer the humiliations of the suppliant. Through that remarkable friend and Christian, the Reverend William H. Hechler, he met the Grand Duke of Baden; he made the rounds of German statesmen, Count zu Eulenburg, Foreign Minister, Von Buelow and Reichschancellor Hohenlohe; then he met the favorites who encircled Sultan Abdul Hamid and the Sultan himself. He placed the dramatic personae of his drama on the stage. The plan involved the ...
— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl
... merely in knocking down the nearest laugher. Having thus restored tranquillity, he strode forward, and took Mr. Clinch by the hand. "By St. Adolph, I did doubt thee a moment ago, nephew; but this last frank confession of thine shows me I did thee wrong. Willkommen zu Hause, Jann, drunk ...
— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... segne Gott, Unsern erngang gleicher massen, Segne unser taglich brod, Segne unser thun und lassen. Segne uns mit sel'gem sterben, Und mach uns zu Himmel's Erben ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, (Victoria) Vol II • Sarah Tytler
... unsichtbaren Saamen entstehen, sind im stande, in dem sie sich nach und nach entwickeln und ihre scheinbar nachlaessige Bildung genau beobachten (lassen), eben so sehr als die schoenste Pflanze, einem empfindenden Herzen die tiefe Achtung und das paradiesische Vernuegen zu verschaffen, welches einzig die Betrachtung der Heere der Natur und ihre gleichbleibende Erhaltung durch eine ewige Kraft ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
... under the command of the Grand-Duke Frederick Francis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Near this "Armee-Abtheilung," as the Germans called it, was the first Bavarian army corps, which had fought at Bazeilles on the day of Sedan. It was commanded by General von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, commonly called Von der ...
— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
... the land of Cape Breton, not then yet known to be an island, in correct relation with the Bacalaos, accompanied by a legend that it was discovered by the Bretons. [Footnote: Atlas zur entdeckingsgeschichte Amerikas. Herausgegeben von Friedrick Kunstmann, Karl von Sprusser, Georg M. Thomas. Zu den Monumenta Saecularia der K.B. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 28 Maers, 1859. Munchen.] The French authorities are more explicit. The particular parts of this coast discovered by the Normands and Bretons with the time of their discovery, and by the Portuguese, are described in the discourse ...
— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy
... die Holfluet, weller hie zu der helgen see kumbt, der sol einen meyer (Gutsverwalter) laden und ouch sin frowen, da sol der meyer lien dem bruetigan ein haffen, da er wol mag ein schaff in geseyden, ouch sol der meyer bringen ein fuder holtz an das hochtzit, ouch sol ein meyer und sin frow bringen ein viertenteyl eines schwynsbachen, ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel
... zu dieser Frist Aus Auerbach's Keller geritten ist, Auf einem Fass mit Wein geschwind, Welches gesehn manch Mutterkind. Solches durch seine subtilne Kunst hat gethan, Und des Teufels Lohn ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various
... looked over in that direction and referred to it as his office. They amused themselves by watching his "people" and trying to make out what they were like. One day he went over there, and sure enough there was a sign out, "Moblirte Wohnung zu Vermiethen." A day or two later he was established in the very room he had selected, it being the ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine
... the Zu'l-Marwah of Bilzur; extensive remains of buildings; a huge reef of quartz, carefully worked, and smaller ruins ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... which he obtained without difficulty. He speedily married a governess in the household of Prince Souvaroff. None the less, the struggles went on for the freedom of Princess Carolyne. In 1859 her daughter, Marie, was married to Prince Constantin zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, aid-de-camp and later grand steward of the Austrian emperor. Now that the daughter was safely disposed of, the princess took active steps for her own freedom. She chose, as a pretext for the dissolution ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 • Rupert Hughes
... the morning-star, also called eha taeht. Aemarik, the ordinary name for the dawn, is used as the name for the evening twilight, or the gloaming in the well-known story, published by Faehlmann (Verhandlungen der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat, vol. i.) In Finnish ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller
... Erd' isi's aufgenommen, Glucklich ist die Form gefullt; Wird's auch schon zu Tage kommen, Dass es Fleiss und Kunst vergilt? Wenn der Guss misslang? Wenn die Form zersprang? Ach, vielleicht, indem wir hoffen, Hat uns Unheil schon getroffen." SCHILLER, "Das ...
— The Education of Catholic Girls • Janet Erskine Stuart
... Caramoran[14], which is said to take its rise in the dominions formerly belonging to Umcan, or Prester John, in the north. It is very deep, and carries ships of great burden, and is well stocked with fish. Within one days journey of the sea are the two cities of Coigan-zu and Quan-zu, on opposite sides of the river, the one a great city and the other a small one, where a fleet of 15,000 vessels is kept by the great khan, each fitted for carrying fifteen horses and twenty men. These are always in readiness to carry an army to any of the islands, or to any remote ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... ist ubrigens nicht zu bedauern dass Shakspere Brunos Komodie nicht durchweg zum Muster genommen, den sie enthaelt so masslose Obscoenitaten, dass Shakspere an seinen staerksten Stellen daneben fast jungfraeulich erscheint" (Work cited, ...
— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson
... Herr' (von Stein) 'pflegte dann wohl scherzend zu sagen: Ich muesse von irgend eine Hexe meinen Altem als ein Wechselbalg in's Nest gelegt seyn; ich gehoere offenbar einem Stamm amerikanischer wilden an, und habe noch die Huehnerhundnase zum Auswittern des verschiedenen Blutes.' Arndt, speaking of his ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey
... H. "Einleitende Gedanken zur Voelkerpsychologie als Einladung zu einer Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft," Zeitschrift fuer Voelkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft, I (1860), 1-73. [This is the most important early attempt to interpret social phenomena from a social psychological point of view. See p. 35 for ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... opinions about Belgian relief. There were zu Reventlow and his great party of jingoes who cried from beginning to end: Kick out these American spies; make an end of this soft-heartedness. Here we have ten million Allied hostages in our hands. Let us say to England and France and the refugee Belgian cabinet at Le Havre: Your people ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg
... mit eiligem Bestreben Sucht sich, was sich angehoert, Und zu ungemessnem Leben Ist Gefuehl und Blick gekehrt. Sei's ergreifen, sei es raffen, Wenn es nur sich fasst und haelt! Allah braucht nicht mehr zu schaffen, Wir ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
... scrutatus sum, sed etiam ab agrestibus et plebeis remedia fortuita atque simplicia, quae experimentis probaverant didici." As to Marcellus and his work, see Jacob Grimm, "Ueber Marcellus Burdigalensis," Abhandlungen der koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaft zu Berlin, 1847, pp. 429-460; id., "Ueber die Marcellischen Formeln," ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer
... 96). Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrischc Lesestucke mit grammatischen Tabellen und vollstdndigem Glossar einfiihrung in die assyrische und babylonische Keilschrift-litteratur bis hinauf zu Hammurabi, Leipzig, 1900. ...
— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... Heeren. Sohn und Vater besorgten ihre Rstung, Bereiteten ihr Schlachtkleid, die Schwerter fest sie grteten, 5 Die Recken ber die Ringe;[1] dann ritten sie zum Kampfe. Hildebrand erhob das Wort; er war der hehrere[2] Mann, In der Welt erfahrener. Zu fragen begann er Mit wenigen Worten, wer sein Vater wre Von den Helden im Volke ... 10 ... "oder welcher Herkunft bist du? So du mir einen nennst, die andern weiss ich mir, Kind, im Knigreiche: kund sind mir alle Geschlechter." Hadubrand erhob das Wort, Hildebrands Sohn: "Das sagten lngst ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... It seems, from later observations, that the transformation of Artemia is a more complex phenomenon than was first supposed. See on this subject Samter and Heymons, "Die Variation bei Artemia Salina" (Anhang zu den Abhandlungen der k. preussischen Akad. ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson
... gehalten im Collegio Romano im Namen der Studirenden der Hochschule zu Rom von Jacob Moleschott. ...
— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
... should likewise remember the truthful, words of Delbrueck: "Legende und Poesie malen darum noch nicht falsch, weil sie mit anderen Farben malen als die Historie. Sie reden nur eine andere Sprache, und es handelt sich darum, aus dieser richtig ins Historische zu uebersetzen." ...
— The Origin and Deeds of the Goths • Jordanes
... Donaustrasse 24, Budapest, tomorrow, and meet Colonel Shuvalov at the Hotel de Paris, Belgrade, the day after.... I wonder if that petit Paris looks the same as when I met my old friend Count Arthur Zu Weringrode and Kazimir Galitzyn coquetting with Cecilia Coursan, Mlle. Balniaux and the Petite Valon at the card tables after our sparkling dinners a few years ago.... And where is that fire-eating Prince now?... He was a great friend of Grey and Churchill at Monte Carlo.... and notwithstanding ...
— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe
... Erzbischof Albrecht II. von Mainz unid Mogdeburg (Munich, 1865—1875ai co. Schum, Kardinal Albrecht von Mainz und die Erfurter Kirchenreformation (Halle, 1878); P. Redlich, Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, und das neue Stift zu Halte (Mainz, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... glass, while the Dutchman stood chuckling over the very nice piece of fun, and the spice of Mr. Dunn's wit, as he called it. "Vat zu make him vat'e no vants too? You doz make me laugh so ven zu comes 'ere, I likes to kilt ...
— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams
... ertone Euer Vaterlandgesang. Vaterland! Du Land des Ruhmes, Weih' zu deines Heiligthumes ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... Salzburgischen emigranten zu Ebenezer, en der Provinz Georgien in Nord-America, &c. Von P.G.F. VON RECK. Halle 1774. From this, and a subsequent Journal of the same author, was published a very interesting little work, by the direction of ...
— Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe • Thaddeus Mason Harris
... that she of whom we write is dust and less than dust below the fertile soil of her so beloved Prussia—Furstin Lieberwurst zu Schweinen-Kalber! Can you not rise from the grave once more to charm us with the magic of your voice? Are those deep, mellowed tones, so sonorous and appealing, never to be heard again? Ah, me! Why, indeed, ...
— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward
... "Bemerkungen zu Burck... ", "Biolog. Centralbl." XXVI. (1906).) has shown that cases occur in which cross-fertilisation may be effected even in these "cleistopetalous" flowers: humming birds visit the permanently ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... Mephistopheles, Faust abandons himself to sensual pleasure,—seduces innocence, burdens his soul with heavy guilt, and seems to be entirely given over to evil. This Part ends with Mephistopheles' imperious call,—"Her zu mir,"—as if secure of his victim. Before the appearance of the Second Part, the reader was at liberty to accept that conclusion. But in the Second Part Faust gradually wakes from the intoxication of passion, ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord
... 3.), hat er es nicht fuer noethig | rarely as 'Simon' only. gefunden, den Taeufer Johannes | von dem gleichnamigen Apostel | Johannes auch nur ein einziges | Mal durch den Zusatz [Greek: ho | baptistes] zu unterscheiden | (1, 6. ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot
... his now famous article "Giorgione's Bilder zu Roemischen Heldengedichten" (Jahrbuch der Koeniglich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen: Sechzehnter Band, I. Heft) has most ingeniously, and upon what may be deemed solid grounds, renamed this most Giorgionesque of all Giorgiones after an incident in ...
— The Earlier Work of Titian • Claude Phillips
... |Theodore V. Birney, who was married December 2 to | |Baron von Schoen, of the German embassy staff, and | |is just back now from the wedding trip. They | |returned for the marriage of Miss Catherine Britton | |to the Prince zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, of the | |Austro-Hungarian embassy staff. Baron and Baroness | |von Schoen will spend Christmas with the latter's | |sister, with whom she has made her home since the | |death of ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... Besten, die jenen schwacheren Volken die Vernichtung brachte, hat die starken Germanen erst befahigt, auf den Trummern der antiken Welt neue dauerende Gemeinschaften zu errichten." Seeck. ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... drei tausend Jahren sich weiss Rechenschaft zu geben, Bleib' im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag Zu ...
— An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy • W. Tudor Jones
... "Geystliche Gsangbuechlin, Erstlich zu Wittenberg, und volgend durch Peter schoeffern getruckt, im jar m. d. xxv. Autore ...
— The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther
... ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes Fuhren; Vom Mutterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabulieren."—Goethe. ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... marked interest and seemed impatient to communicate the matter to his mistress, therefore without more ado he spelt out: 'maigfr in sagdl, inn was dsm sn' (i.e. 'Maikafer in der Schachtel; innen was zu essen') (May-bug in box; inside something to eat), adding, presumably as an after-thought, 'nid gefressn' (nicht gefressen; didn't eat it!). Rolf had therefore recognised the biscuits inside the may-bug by their smell only—and was anxious that she ...
— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann
... making proper deduction for special reference to the book under review, expresses what I would have said far better than I could hope to do: 'Allen diesen innern guten Eigenschaften kommt die behagliche naive Sprache sehr zu statten. Man findet mehrere sinnlich bedeutende and wohlklingende Worte ... von einem, zwei Buchstaben, Abbreviationen, Contractionen, viele kurze, leichte Sylben, neue Reime, welches, mehr als man glaubt, ein Vortheil fuer den Dichter ist. Diese Elemente werden durch glueckliche Constructionen ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... Liebes- und Gedaechtniszmahl des Leidens und Sterbens unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi, wie solches von dem Herrn durch Sein Wort und zeugnisz angekuendigt, angeordnet und gehalten warden, in Vier Abtheilungen, zu Mittel und Nieder Eben-Ezer, im Jahr 1855" ("The Supper of Love and Remembrance of the suffering and death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: How it was announced, ordered, and held by his word and witness, in four parts, in Middle and ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... sie "Erzdieb," Hervor doch haucht sie "Herzdieb"— Hin springe ich zum Herzlieb. "Ehrloser!" statt zu wehren, "Her, Loser!" laesst sie hoeren; Nur rascher dem Begehren Folgt' ich mit ihr zu kosen, Die lieblich ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... F.—Briefe ueber den Supranaturalismus; eine Gegenschrift zu den Briefen ueber den ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... vollzieht sich nach zwei Gesetzen. Das erste Gesetz ist das der Differenzierung. Die primitiven Einrichtungen sind einfach und einheitlich, die der Civilisation zusammengesetzt und geteilt, und die Arbeitsteilung nimmt bestaendig zu.—SICKEL, ...
— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton
... the corresponding scene of Perseus and Andromeda, is a favourite with artists in northern Gaul and Britain. It occurs on tombstones at Chester (Grosvenor Museum Catalogue, No. 138) and Trier (Hettner, Die roem. Steindenkmaeler zu Trier, p. 206), and Arlon (Wiltheim, Luciliburgensia, plate 57), and the Igel monument. For other instances see ...
— The Romanization of Roman Britain • F. Haverfield
... er dahin gefragen, Was war dem Gluecklichen zu schwer! Wie tanzte vor des Lebens Wagen Die luftige Begleitung her! Die Liebe mit dem suessen Lohne, Das Glueck mit seinem gold'nen Kranz, Der Ruhm mit seiner Sternenkrone, Die Wahrheit ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... der dritte Abgott und man ihn anruffte um's Gewitters willen, damit sie Regen haetten und schoen wetter zu seiner Zeit, und ihn der Donner und blix kein schaden thett." Cf. "Gottesides bei den alten Preussen," Berlin, 1870, p. 23. The triad of the gods is called Triburti, Tryboze; l. ...
— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller
... Grimm, "von den Woertern zu den Sachen," is too often neglected. In dealing with the etymology of a word which is the name of an object or of an action, we must first find out exactly what the original object looked like or how the original action was performed. The etymologist must either be an ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley
... in that river. Of this significant rite Mommsen aptly observes, "Die Ideen goettlicher Gnade und Versoehnbarkeit sind hier ununterscheidbar gemischt mit der frommen Schlauigkeit, welche es versucht den gefaehrlichen Herrn durch scheinhafte Befriedigung zu beruecken und abzufinden." Roemische Geschichte, 4e Aufl., 1865, Bd. i. p. 176. After reading such a remark it may seem odd to find the writer, in a footnote, refusing to accept the true explanation of the custom; but that was a quarter ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
... der staubigen Residenz, In den laubigen Frischen Lenz— Aus dem tosenden Gassenschwall Zu dem kosenden Wasserfall,— Wer sich rettete, Dank's dem Glueck, Wie ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various
... noon-day edition in Berlin and was published by the largest newspaper publishing house in Germany, Ullstein & Co. At his request I withdrew the telegram and forgot the incident. Within a few days, however, Count zu Reventlow, in the Deutsche Tageszeitung, and Georg Bernhard, in the Vossische Zeitung, wrote sharp attacks on President Wilson. But ...
— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman
... Anblick dieser Sammlung giebts offenbar dass ich eigentlich von Englishchen Volksliedern ausging und auf sie zurueckkomme. Als vor zehn und mehr Jahren die 'Reliques of Ancient Poetry' mir in die Haende fielen, freuten mich einzelne Stuecke so sehr, dass ich sie zu uebersetzen versuchte."—Vorrede zu den Volksliedern. Herder's Saemmtlichee Werke, Achter Theil, s. ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... pass over her, a chill warning at that sad moment when all was passing away? I pressed his cold hand, and asked her name. Gathering his remaining strength he murmured, "Krombach" [Krombach was merely the name of his native village in Bavaria.] . . . "Es bleibt nur zu sterben." "Ich bin sehr dankbar." These were the last words he spoke, "I am very grateful." I gazed sorrowfully at his attenuated figure, and at the now powerless hand that had laid low many an elephant and lion, in its day of strength; and ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
... poet's nai"ve enthusiasm and his clear insight by followers of Arnold and Brunetie e, after many class-room that the English poetry written between the time of Aldhelm and C(ae)dmon (and other occurrences of "Caedmon") with deeds of manhood before Zu"tphen and touch their hearts and had coo"perated with him in the series of lectures how to coo"perate with other men in the prosecution of inquiry." These lectures, suggested by those given at the Colle/ge ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims
... a dark game, but Nora could see it and go one lighter (there were several on the stream we had quitted). She produced a patent electric light.[19] Aided by this, we looked about us and saw the strange denizens of the Zu. ...
— HE • Andrew Lang
... alt Suumer-zeit," Martha's voice joined him. As they jolted along the path through the pine trees, heading toward Datura-village, near which their homestead stood, they sang the other homey songs to the music of the old guitar. "Drawk Mich Zrick zu Alt Virginye," nostalgic for the black-garbed Plain-Folk left at home. Then Aaron's fingers danced a livelier tune on the strings: "Ich fang 'n neie Fashun aw," he crowed, and ...
— Blind Man's Lantern • Allen Kim Lang
... their own troubles and dangers in travelling, especially in winter. And even at the end of the fifteenth century, German travels across the Alps were written in the same strain—for example, the account of the voyage of the Elector-Palatine Alexander v. Zweibruecken and Count Joh. Ludwig zu Nassau (1495-96) from Zurich Rapperschwyl and Wesen to Wallensee: 'This is the real Switzerland; has few villages, just a house here and a house there, but beautiful meadows, much cattle, and very high mountains, ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... Waesche klatscht vor meiner Thuer, Es plarrt die Kuechenzofe, Und mich, mich fuhrt das Fluegelthier Zu Koenig Philips Hofe. ...
— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle
... Schiller is at his best in his philosophical lyrics: as Goethe has said, in this field he is absolutely supreme. Poems like Das Ideal und das Leben or Der Spaziergang are far too difficult for our younger students. Das verschleierte Bild zu Sais, however, offers a philosophical problem which the younger mind can grasp without special training in philosophy. A few introductory remarks, such as I have given in the notes, will prepare the way. Both poems, furthermore, exemplify ...
— A Book Of German Lyrics • Various
... we called upon Mr. Grierson and went with him to the Customs House where Messrs. Abertsen and Palmer were living. We found there a Scotch botanist, Mr. Forrest, an old traveler in Yuen-nan who was en route to A-tun-zu on a three-year plant-hunting expedition for an English commercial firm. We had heard much of Forrest from Messrs. Kok and Hanna and were especially glad to meet him because of his wide knowledge of the ...
— Camps and Trails in China - A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China • Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews
... sentiment that impelled it, Poo being an utterance in which the breath is exploded from the lips with more or less vehemence. On the other hand, Z, when an initial, is with them a sound in which the breath is sucked inward, and thus Zu, pronounced Zoo (which in their language is one letter), is the ordinary prefix to words that signify something that attracts, pleases, touches the heart—as Zummer, lover; Zutze, love; Zuzulia, delight. ...
— The Coming Race • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... Romance, and Oriental verse and strophe forms, reminiscent of his reading[24] in many instances, and romantic as a whole, especially in their constant portrayal of longing. Loeben was the poet of Sehnsucht. He tried always das Nahe zu entfernen und das Ferne sich nahe zu bringen. With a few conspicuous exceptions, his lyrics resemble those of Geibel somewhat in form and treatment. Poetry and individual poets receive grateful consideration, the seasons are overworked, love rarely fails and nature never, ...
— Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei • Allen Wilson Porterfield
... understand German? Oh, of course, my student; but this is a sad old song; students don't sing such things. These are some of the words: 'Beh te Gott! es war zu schoen gewesen.' ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf
... had small bags full of sand; yet others big bags that were empty. When the wood was reached the sand from the small bags was to be emptied into the big bags; the machine-gun parts were to be put together, the guns mounted behind the sandbag redoubt, and then, as Major Von und Zu pleasantly observed, "the English pigs ...
— The Angels of Mons • Arthur Machen
... you know Schott?" asked the irascible little doctor; "ein eigenthmlicher Snger, nicht war? Eigentlich ist er ein Militrtenor—ein Artillerist. Sie wissen er singt manchmal zu hoch—da distonirt er; gewhnlich singt er zu tief—da destonirt er; und wenn er gelegentlich rein singt—da detonirt er!" The ingenious play on words is quite untranslatable, but my readers who understand German but are unfamiliar ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... ruffians, 'white blackmen,' from Sierra Leone and Akra, drunken Fanti policemen, and plundering Haussa soldiers. The ex-manager of the Effuenta mine says, in allusion to his early residence there, 'So wird Einem das Leben daselbst zu einer wahren Hoelle;' and he rightly describes the peculiar industries of these true infernal regions as 'Schnappskneipen, Spielhoellen und Schlimmeres.' Almost every house combines the pub. and the agapemone: all the chief luxuries of the Coast-'factories' are ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
... muesst mich nicht durch Widerspruch verwirren! Sobald man spricht, beginnt man schon zu irren." ...
— Essays of Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... but the word and we were in the thick of it. I remembered my old field-marshal's maxim, Von Feinden umringt, ist die Zeit zu zerschmettern; and truly, being so plentifully outnumbered, we did strike both first ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... Dobrovsky's Entwurf zu einer allgemeinen Slavischen Etymologie, Prague 1812. See also the Slovanka of this ...
— Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic - Nations • Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
... over a difference with the Poles, and his successor, Prince Konrad zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst, who had taken over the reform bills, resigned also, six weeks later, as a protest against the action of the crown in consenting to the enactment of a customs tariff in Hungary distinct from, though identical with, the joint Austro-Hungarian tariff comprised ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... Voelker und Sprachen Neu-Mexiko's und der Westseite des britischen Nordamerika's, dargestellt von Hrn. Buschmann. In Abhandlungen (aus dem Jahre 1857) der koeniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Berlin, 1858. ...
— Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico • John Wesley Powell
... Doch Zuweilen ist des Sinns in einer Sache Auch mehr, als wir vermuthen; und es waere So unerhoert doch nicht, dass uns der Heiland Auf Wegen zu sich zoege, die der Kluge Von selbst nicht ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) - Essay 1: Vauvenargues • John Morley
... man who claims, Almighty God, to be a preacher of Thy word, and yet so impudently asserts that, in order to attain Thy purposes, there was only one way in which it pleased Thee to make Thyself known to him!" This is very far from nur den einzigen Weg gehabt den Du Dir gefallen lassen ihm kund zu machen! The ihm is scornfully emphatic. We hope Professor Evans will go over his version for a second edition much more carefully than we have had any occasion to do. He has done an excellent service to our literature, ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... denk ich nur an Dich, Als in den Mond zu seh'n, Ein suesser Friede weht um mich, Weiss ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach
... preserved with the other papers in the case in the Archives at Halle, and copied for the new edition of the Halle Reports, I quote this passage: "Ich biethe dem Satan und seinen dienstbaren Luegen-Geistern Trutz um etwas auf mich zu beweisen, das wider der Lehre der Apostel und Propheten und unserer Symbolischen Buecher streiten sollte. Ich habe oft und vielmals gesagt und geschrieben das ich an unsere Evangelische Lehre, nach dem Grunde der ...
— The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America • Beale M. Schmucker
... the opera of "Martha." Among the reasonable guesses as to its source is one that Flotow found the theme for the story in a French ballet named "Lady Henriette, ou la Foire de Richmond," also, "Lady Harriette, ou la Servante de Greenwich." Among the German titles we find "Martha, oder der Markt zu Richmond," and "Martha, oder der Maegdemarkt zu Richmond." When all is said and done, it is still a ...
— Operas Every Child Should Know - Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces • Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
... precursor of modern thought in its more poetical and widely synthetic speculation must be left for a separate essay. Here I may remark that the most faithful and pithily condensed abstract of Bruno's philosophy is contained in Goethe's poem Proemium zu Gott und Welt. Yet this poem expresses Goethe's thought, and it is doubtful whether Goethe had studied Bruno except in the ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
... golden hued Wzu-pe-we —the moon when the wild rice is gathered; When the leaves on the tall sugar-tree are as red as the breast of the robin, And the red-oaks that border the lea are aflame with the fire of the sunset, From the wide waving ...
— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon
... Schlau zu Vetter Fritz, "Wie kommt es, Vetter Fritzen, Dass grad' die Reichsten in der Welt, Das meiste ...
— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James
... that occasion an invocation to the mountain is chanted by priests and people in chorus. Like the Lama's address to the genius of Catsuperri lake, its meaning, if it ever had any, is not now apparent. It runs thus:— "Kanchin-jinga, Pemi Kadup Gnetche Tangla, Dursha tember Zu jinga Pemsum Serkiem Dischze Kubra Kanchin tong." This was written for me by Dr. Campbell, who, like myself, has vainly sought its solution; it is probably a mixture of Tibetan and Lepcha, both as much corrupted as the celebrated "Om mani padmi boom," which is universally pronounced by Lepchas ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... delicately expressive. Later in life I discovered the reasons for this, and I have discussed them in my report on a "German music school to be established at Munich," [Footnote: "Bericht ueber eine in Munchen zu errichtende deutsche Musikschule" (1865). See Appendix A.] to which I beg to refer readers who may be interested in the subject. Assuredly, the reasons lie in the want of a proper Conservatorium of German music—a Conservatory, in the strictest sense of the word, in which the traditions ...
— On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren): - A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music • Richard Wagner (translated by Edward Dannreuther)
... very still in that position, leaving Lady Harman to note for the first time how broad and flat he was both between his shoulders and between his ears. Then his face came round slowly, he relinquished something heavy, stood up, held up a hand. "Zu spaet," he whispered, as though he too was surprised. He sought in his mind for English and then found his phrase: "He ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... resting on no authority, opposed to all the evidence; and make surmises as to the manner in which Cicero may have been led into the error. (See Rutter, vol. i., p. 211, 2d ed.; Brandis, vol. i., pp. 118-9, 1st ed.; Preller, Historia Philosophiae Graeco-Romanae, p. 10. "Schiefe Ansicht, durchaus zu verwerfen;" "augenscheinlich folgernd statt zu berichten;" "quibus vera sententia Thaletis plane detorquetur," are the expressions of these writers.) As for Anaximenes, he even according to Cicero, maintained, not that air was the material out of which God made the world, but that the air ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... giebt jedoch auch Arten—und dieses ist fuer den Systematiker wie fuer den Physiologen gleich wichtig—welche sich den wechselnden Bedingungen der Feuchtigkeit so vollkommen anpassen, dass ihre extremen Formen zu ungleichen ...
— The Genus Pinus • George Russell Shaw
... history of Napoleon's campaign in Russia I found one of a Prussian army physician, Dr. Krantz, published in the year 1817 with the following title: Bemerkungen ueber den Gang der Krankheiten welche in der koniglich preussischen Armee vom Ausbruch des Krieges im Jahre 1812 bis zu Ende des Waffenstillstandes (im Aug.) 1813 geherrscht haben. (Remarks on the course of the Diseases which have reigned in the Royal Prussian Army from the Beginning of the War in the Year 1812 until the End of the Armistice ...
— Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 • Achilles Rose
... of life and hope for the future, and without any of that secret melancholy which Time the immeasurable distils into every parting. Hardly had they turned their backs on the friend they left behind them when they began to sing, "Im Schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon," exaggerating the melancholy of the first half of the tune, and the gayety of the second, passing riotously away behind a turn of the road, their song becoming fainter ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau
... Herz ist im Hochland, mein Herz ist nicht hier, Mein Herz ist im Hochland im gruenen Revier. Im gruenen Reviere zu jagen das Reh; Mein Herz ist im ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... nao, wissen, erkennen. Naoal ist dasjenige, womit oder woran etwas, in diesem Falle das Schicksal des Kindes, erkannt wird, und hat mit dem mexikanischen nahualli (Hexe), mit dem man es vielleicht in Verbindung bringen moechte, nichts zu schaffen." Guatemala, s. 238. ...
— Nagualism - A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History • Daniel G. Brinton
... sind ueberreich an doppelsinnigen Ausdruecken die sie absichtlich anwenden um ihre Gedanken zu verbergen. Geistliche haben mir versichert, dass sie obgleich der Aztekischen Sprache vollstaendig maechtig, oft den wahren Sinn einer Beichte nicht zu verstehen vermochten, weil die Beichtende sich in raethselhafter und metaphorreicher Weise ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton
... Produce, inanimate or animate, and go tumbling out again with produce manufactured. That living flood, pouring through these streets, of all qualities and ages, knowest thou whence it is coming, whither it is going? Aus der Ewigkeit, zu der Ewigkeit hin: From Eternity, onwards to Eternity! These are Apparitions: what else? Are they not Souls rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air? Their solid Pavement is a Picture of the Sense; they walk on the bosom of Nothing, ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle |
