Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Revolution , Pt . i , bk . 7 , ch . v ) . " " A painter is a companion for kings and emperors . BENJAMIN WEST ( 1738-1820 ) - in the course of a conversation . " Apologies only account for that which they do not alter . ' Quoted by ...
... Revolution , Pt . i , bk . 7 , ch . v ) . " " A painter is a companion for kings and emperors . BENJAMIN WEST ( 1738-1820 ) - in the course of a conversation . " Apologies only account for that which they do not alter . ' Quoted by ...
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... Revolutions are not made , they come . WENDELL PHILLIPS ( 1811-84 ) — in a speech to the Anti - Slavery Society at Boston ( Mass . ) , 28th Jan. 1852 . Revolutions never go backward . WENDELL PHILLIPS ( 1811-84 ) — in a speech at Boston ...
... Revolutions are not made , they come . WENDELL PHILLIPS ( 1811-84 ) — in a speech to the Anti - Slavery Society at Boston ( Mass . ) , 28th Jan. 1852 . Revolutions never go backward . WENDELL PHILLIPS ( 1811-84 ) — in a speech at Boston ...
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... révolution française est un ( The French bloc · revolution is a block . • • . ) E. CLÉMENCEAU ( b - 1841 ) -in a speech in the French Chamber à propos of Sardou's play Thermidor ( represented at the Comédie- Française , Jan. 24 & 26 ...
... révolution française est un ( The French bloc · revolution is a block . • • . ) E. CLÉMENCEAU ( b - 1841 ) -in a speech in the French Chamber à propos of Sardou's play Thermidor ( represented at the Comédie- Française , Jan. 24 & 26 ...
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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