Famous quotes containing the words carl friedrich, carl, friedrich, years and/or death:
“The freedom to share ones insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.”
—Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (17401792)
“The millere was a stout carl for the nones;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the Worlds history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.”
—Henrik Ibsen (18281906)
“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! tis hard to die by fire!”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863)