Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Le Moniteur Universel , May 24 , 1790 . streets ! • Note . The Tarpeian rock is the rock from which criminals guilty of treason were precipitated and is near the Capitol where victors were crowned . The comparison is used to indicate ...
... Le Moniteur Universel , May 24 , 1790 . streets ! • Note . The Tarpeian rock is the rock from which criminals guilty of treason were precipitated and is near the Capitol where victors were crowned . The comparison is used to indicate ...
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... Le Moniteur universel , Apr. 29 , 1819 , p . 529. He repeated the phrase Mar. 7 , 1827 : " la vie privée doit être murée . " ( Private life ought to be within walls . ) 99 TALLEYRAND ( 1754-1838 ) , ac- cording to Stendhal , is credited ...
... Le Moniteur universel , Apr. 29 , 1819 , p . 529. He repeated the phrase Mar. 7 , 1827 : " la vie privée doit être murée . " ( Private life ought to be within walls . ) 99 TALLEYRAND ( 1754-1838 ) , ac- cording to Stendhal , is credited ...
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... Le Moniteur universel , Dec. 23 , 1792 . Le ( petit ) ruisseau de la rue du Bac . ( The gutter stream of the rue du Bac ) . MADAME DE STAEL'S ( 1766- 1817 ) expression , to typify her beloved Paris , from which she was exiled ( Cf ...
... Le Moniteur universel , Dec. 23 , 1792 . Le ( petit ) ruisseau de la rue du Bac . ( The gutter stream of the rue du Bac ) . MADAME DE STAEL'S ( 1766- 1817 ) expression , to typify her beloved Paris , from which she was exiled ( Cf ...
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS I | 30 |
FRENCH SAYINGS | 82 |
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Caesar 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 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