Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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Page 85
... ( Mémoires inédits , vol . I , p . 188 ) to have been uttered by sergeant DUBOIS , belonging to his company , in the night of Oct. 15-16 , 1760 , at Clostercamp , when both perished . Grimm's version is : " A nous , Auvergne , c'est l ...
... ( Mémoires inédits , vol . I , p . 188 ) to have been uttered by sergeant DUBOIS , belonging to his company , in the night of Oct. 15-16 , 1760 , at Clostercamp , when both perished . Grimm's version is : " A nous , Auvergne , c'est l ...
Page 180
... Mémoires , 1809 , vol . I , p . 162. See A moi , Auvergne , voilà les ennemis . Note . - Facing the title - page of P. Baillot's Récit de la bataille de Marathon ( Dijon 1791 ) , are the following words : Si tu parles , tu es mort ...
... Mémoires , 1809 , vol . I , p . 162. See A moi , Auvergne , voilà les ennemis . Note . - Facing the title - page of P. Baillot's Récit de la bataille de Marathon ( Dijon 1791 ) , are the following words : Si tu parles , tu es mort ...
Page 189
... Mémoires , 2nd series p . II ( vol . 40 of the Collection Petitot ) . Other versions give the exact words as , " Vous pleurez , 66 vous êtes le maître et je pars ! " ( You weep , you are the master and I am going away ! ) - Chéruel ...
... Mémoires , 2nd series p . II ( vol . 40 of the Collection Petitot ) . Other versions give the exact words as , " Vous pleurez , 66 vous êtes le maître et je pars ! " ( You weep , you are the master and I am going away ! ) - Chéruel ...
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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