1829

Explore 7 quotes from the year 1829

Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me."

Speckled Snake

More information about this quote

Topic

Manifest destiny

Speaker

Speckled Snake

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Speckled Snake. Speech delivered at a council of Indian chiefs. 20 June 1829, USA.

Current Citation

Speckled Snake. Quoted in A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, written by Howard Zinn. Routledge, 2015, ch. 7.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when... To dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

More information about this quote

Topic

Seasons of life Inflection points

Speaker

William Ellery Channing

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Channing, William Ellery. "The Union." May 1829, Boston, MA, USA. Speech.

Marriage must ceaselessly combat a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honoré de Balzac

Physiologie du Mariage

Read The Physiology of Marriage at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Relationship challenges Marriage

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

Physiologie du Mariage

Language

French

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. Physiologie du mariage [Physiology of Marriage]. Paris, 1829, pt. 1, meditation 5, no. 47.

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

More information about this quote

Topic

Architecture

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language

German

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "23 Mar. 1829." Gespräche mit Goethe [Conversations with Goethe]. Vol. 2, Leipzig: F. M. Brodhaus, 1836.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "March 23, 1829." Conversations with Goethe, translated by Allen Blunden. Penguin Classics, 2022.

When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hands grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon.

Speckled Snake

Buy A People's History of the United States at Amazon Buy A People's History of the United States at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

US and Native American relations

Speaker

Speckled Snake

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Speckled Snake. Speech delivered at a council of Indian chiefs. 20 June 1829, USA.

Current Citation

Speckled Snake. Quoted in A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, written by Howard Zinn. Routledge, 2015, ch. 7.

His Majesty's dominions, on which the sun never sets.

Christopher North

More information about this quote

Topic

British empire

Author

Christopher North

Source

Blackwood's Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

North, Christopher. "Noctes Ambrosianae." Blackwood's Magazine, Apr. 1829.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Clay

More information about this quote

Topic

Citizen and state Government Political theory

Speaker

Henry Clay

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clay, Henry. Speech in Kentucky. Public dinner. 16 May 1829, Fowler's Garden, Lexington, KY, USA.