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"Potsdam" Quotes from Famous Books

... of touching it. Scared, by Jove!" He threw up his arms to the ceiling and his voice trembled with passion. "Germany scared! And there was a time when Europe cringed at the clank of the Prussian sword! When the lightest word of Potsdam set ministries trembling in Petrograd and London. You told me the other day you were a pacifist during the war and that you sympathized with Prussia in her humiliation. I am a Prussian, why should I deny it? I glory ...

— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace

... Emanuel led to his appointment as court-composer to the king of Prussia and hence, in 1747, to Sebastian's being summoned to visit Frederick the Great at Potsdam, an incident which Bach always regarded as the culmination of his career, much as Dr Johnson regarded his interview with George III. Bach had to play on the numerous newly invented pianofortes of Silbermann which the king had bought, and also to try the organs of the churches ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

... Nancy, became the first sculptor of Frederick the Great and the head of the atelier of sculpture founded by that monarch, and passed the greater part of his life in Berlin. His chief works adorn the gardens and palaces of Sans Souci and Potsdam. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... troops," says the CROWN PRINCE, "we could fetch the Devil from Hell." We have always maintained that the German military route lay on a direct line to Potsdam. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. • Various

Words linked to "Potsdam" : FRG, metropolis, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, Potsdam Conference, Germany, city, urban center