"European concert" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... civilisation consists, and in spite of the ever-ready pitfalls of spurious generalisation, it seems to me that there is very distinctly an American note, different in pitch and tone from any note in the European concert. The scale to which it belongs is not, indeed, one out of all relation to that of the older hemisphere, in the way, for example, in which the laws governing Chinese music seem to stand apart from all relations to those on which the Sonata ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... deepening tragedy in the Balkans. Undoubtedly the most potent was the dislocation of the plans of the Allies by the creation of an independent Albania. This new kingdom was called into being by the voice of the European concert at the demand of Austria-Hungary ...
— The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 - Third Edition • Jacob Gould Schurman |
