"Wem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The mother affects to receive her information from a person in your house. If you cannot arrange with Czerny to bring Carl home, he must not go at all; "trau, schau, wem!" [trust not till you try.] The only impression that his mother ought to make on Carl is what I have already told him,—namely, to respect her as his mother, but not to follow her example in any respect; he must be strongly ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Vol. 2 • Lady Wallace
... a Dissenting Minister at Wem in Shropshire; and in the year 1798 (the figures that compose the date are to me like the 'dreaded name of Demogorgon') Mr. Coleridge came to Shrewsbury, to succeed Mr. Rowe in the spiritual charge of a Unitarian congregation ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various
... "'Wem er geneigt, dem sendet der Vater der Menschen und Goetter Seinen Adler herab, traegt ihn zu himmlischen Hoeh'n und welches Haupt ihm gefaellt um das flicht er mit liebenden Haenden ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various
... and turned my steps in the direction of Coalbrookdale. I passed through a highly picturesque country, in which I enjoyed the sight of many old timber houses, most attractive subjects for my pencil. My route lay through Whitchurch, Wem, and Wellington; then past the Wrekin to Coalbrookdale. Before arriving there I saw the first iron bridge constructed in England, an object of historical interest in that class of structures. It was because of the superb quality of the castings produced at Coalbrookdale that the ironmasters there ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth
... doubtless have taken strong measures to put a stop to them, for the older, though not the worse, of the two bullies was a nephew of his own. His sister was married to Sir Richard Cludde, of a notable family whose seat lay north of Shrewsbury, towards Wem, and it was his only son, named Richard after his father, who made one of this precious couple of harriers. There was little coming and going between the houses of the two families, for Mr. Ellery had not approved ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang
... few minutes longer! Be of good cheer, you will come off without either scar or scratch, wem or wound. Be of ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... l'histoire. C'est la logique, mais cette logique qui ne fait qu'un avec enchainement des choses. C'est l'enseignement de l'experience.—SCHERER, Melanges, 558. Wer seine Vergangenheit nicht als seine Geschichte hat and weiss wird and ist characterlos Wem ein Ereigniss sein Sonst plotzlich abreisst, von seinem Jetzt wird leicht wurzellos.—KLIEFOTH, Rheinwalds Repertorium, xliv. 20. La politique est une des meilleures ecoles pour l'esprit. Elle force a chercher ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... was a dissenting minister at Wem, in Shropshire; and in the year 1798, Mr. Coleridge came to Shrewsbury, to succeed Mr. Rowe in the spiritual charge of a Unitarian congregation there. He did not come till late on the Saturday afternoon before he was to preach, and Mr. Rowe, who himself went down to the coach in a ...
— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman |
