Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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Page 105
... Louis XIV ( 1638-1715 . ) " Grand roi , cesse de vaincre , ou je cesse d'écrire . " ( Great king , cease to conquer or I cease to write . ) Grattez le Russe , vous trouverez 66 le Cosaque . ( Scratch the Russian , you'll find the ...
... Louis XIV ( 1638-1715 . ) " Grand roi , cesse de vaincre , ou je cesse d'écrire . " ( Great king , cease to conquer or I cease to write . ) Grattez le Russe , vous trouverez 66 le Cosaque . ( Scratch the Russian , you'll find the ...
Page 115
... Louis XIV , she writes : " Il ne pouvait souffrir que l'on se fit attendre . " ( He could not bear to be kept waiting for anyone . ) J'ai fait dix mécontents et un ingrat . ( I have made ten dis- contented and one ungrateful . ) Saying ...
... Louis XIV , she writes : " Il ne pouvait souffrir que l'on se fit attendre . " ( He could not bear to be kept waiting for anyone . ) J'ai fait dix mécontents et un ingrat . ( I have made ten dis- contented and one ungrateful . ) Saying ...
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... Louis XIV ( 1638-1715 ) in the park at Ver- sailles , on being asked if he remem- bered that a mill used to be there . Où la vertu va - t - elle se nicher ! ( Where is virtue going to nestle ! ) Attributed to MOLIÈRE ( 1622-73 ) . He ...
... Louis XIV ( 1638-1715 ) in the park at Ver- sailles , on being asked if he remem- bered that a mill used to be there . Où la vertu va - t - elle se nicher ! ( Where is virtue going to nestle ! ) Attributed to MOLIÈRE ( 1622-73 ) . He ...
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS I | 30 |
FRENCH SAYINGS | 82 |
GERMAN 99 | 190 |
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord Louis XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur Monsieur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on qu'un Queen quoted referring Reichstag reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM ἂν γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς