"Brussels" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... armies marched through Brussels and across the battle-blackened country easterly through Louvain; and at Liege joined hands with the armies from the south, as news came of the surrender of the German armies of ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor
... violating that neutrality that France might find herself under the necessity, in order to assure the defence of her security, to act otherwise. This assurance has been given several times. The President of the Republic spoke of it to the King of the Belgians, and the French Minister at Brussels has spontaneously renewed the assurance to the Belgian Minister of ...
— Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 • Edgar Jones
... stated that the leaders of the German Army attach no importance to the lives of their men that it seems only fair to point out that last week Brussels was fined L200,000 for wounding a couple ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 18, 1914 • Various
... to require the Archduke to order the Prince of Conde to leave his dominions. And when the Archduke declined with dignity to be guilty of any such breach of the law of nations, Henry dispatched Coeuvres secretly to Brussels to carry off thence the princess. But Maria de' Medici was on the alert, anti frustrated the design by sending a warning of what was intended to the Marquis Spinola, as a result of which the Prince de Conde and his wife were housed for greater ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... history, have exposed many fictions, and have often led to some strikingly paradoxical conclusions. They have substituted for Cambronne's apocryphal saying at Waterloo the blunt sarcasm of the Duke of Wellington that there were a number of ladies at Brussels who were termed "la vieille garde," and of whom it was said "elles ne meurent pas et se rendent toujours." They have led one eminent historian to apologise for the polygamous tendencies of Henry VIII.; another to advance the startling proposition that ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
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