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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

goethe

/ɡoʊθ/

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What does goethe mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname from German.

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/ɡoʊθ/

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It is only given to a few supremely endowed persons like Goethe to possess them both to an eminent degree.
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486
People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have “desire to fabulate.”
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
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They might also lay a foundation for reverence of the past which Goethe declares to be the basis of all sound progress.
Jane AddamsTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #1325
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent, that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.--Goethe.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966
It was seen that the art of ballad writing--which Goethe calls the most difficult of arts--was not, as some averred, a forgotten one.
Thomas WrightThe Life of Sir Richard BurtonProject Gutenberg ebook #4315