Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... death . " I could wish this tragic scene were over , but I hope to go through it with becoming dignity . JAMES QUIN ( 1693-1766 ) — Last words . I die happy . CHARLES JAMES FOX ( 1749- 1806 ) Last words . Another ac- count gives ...
... death . " I could wish this tragic scene were over , but I hope to go through it with becoming dignity . JAMES QUIN ( 1693-1766 ) — Last words . I die happy . CHARLES JAMES FOX ( 1749- 1806 ) Last words . Another ac- count gives ...
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... death of Turenne in order to make way Often for a protégé of Louvois . erroneously ascribed to Mme . de Sévigné . La montagne est passée , nous irons mieux . ( The mountain is passed , we shall get along better now . ) Last words of ...
... death of Turenne in order to make way Often for a protégé of Louvois . erroneously ascribed to Mme . de Sévigné . La montagne est passée , nous irons mieux . ( The mountain is passed , we shall get along better now . ) Last words of ...
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... ( Death to the tyrants , peace to the cottages . ) Oath taken by the Jacobins ( Tan . 21 , 1794 ) , on the anniversary of LOUIS XVI's ( 1754-93 ) death , at the foot of the statue of Liberty , place de la Révolution . See Guerre aux ...
... ( Death to the tyrants , peace to the cottages . ) Oath taken by the Jacobins ( Tan . 21 , 1794 ) , on the anniversary of LOUIS XVI's ( 1754-93 ) death , at the foot of the statue of Liberty , place de la Révolution . See Guerre aux ...
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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