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“Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of--the air!"”
Provenance
- Source:
- Richter. Edinburgh Review, 1827.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 50bfc858117a5240db4a91159c9de27f7bc8de25100bf57cbc0801a9447976d4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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