Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... expressing it are different , but indifferent in their nature ) . Saying of FENELON ( 1651-1715 ) . L'appétit vient en mangeant . ( Appetite comes by eating ) . Attributed to JACQUES AMYOT ( 1513-93 ) who , having already the abbey of ...
... expressing it are different , but indifferent in their nature ) . Saying of FENELON ( 1651-1715 ) . L'appétit vient en mangeant . ( Appetite comes by eating ) . Attributed to JACQUES AMYOT ( 1513-93 ) who , having already the abbey of ...
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... Expression originating in a phrase used in a speech by P.-P. ROYER- COLLARD ( 1763-1846 ) , Apr. 27 , 1819. " Voilà donc la vie privée 66 وو murée , si je puis me servir de " cette expression . . ( Private life is therefore shut in by ...
... Expression originating in a phrase used in a speech by P.-P. ROYER- COLLARD ( 1763-1846 ) , Apr. 27 , 1819. " Voilà donc la vie privée 66 وو murée , si je puis me servir de " cette expression . . ( Private life is therefore shut in by ...
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... expression had previously ap- peared in print ( in German ) : Florilegium Christopheri Lehman , Frankfort , 1640 : " Die Welt wird mit wenig Witz_regiert . " ( The world is ruled with little wisdom ) . The words are attributed to POPE ...
... expression had previously ap- peared in print ( in German ) : Florilegium Christopheri Lehman , Frankfort , 1640 : " Die Welt wird mit wenig Witz_regiert . " ( The world is ruled with little wisdom ) . The words are attributed to POPE ...
Contents
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