King Frederick Augustus

Famous quotes containing the words king, frederick and/or augustus:

    The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen.
    Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
    Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;

    Bravest of all in Frederick town,
    She took up the flag the men hauled down;
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)