Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... friends from a similar clemency . SIR THOMAS MORE ( 1480-1535 ) - when told that the sentence of death pronounced upon him had been changed to one of simple decapita- tion , by clemency of the king . Another version is : " God preserve ...
... friends from a similar clemency . SIR THOMAS MORE ( 1480-1535 ) - when told that the sentence of death pronounced upon him had been changed to one of simple decapita- tion , by clemency of the king . Another version is : " God preserve ...
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... ( Friends as far as the altar . ) By FRANCIS I ( 1494-1547 ) to HENRY VIII ( 1491-1547 ) who pressed him to renounce the pope's authority . Amis , souvenez - vous de Rocroy , de Fribourg et de Nord- lingen ! ( Friends , remember Rocroy ...
... ( Friends as far as the altar . ) By FRANCIS I ( 1494-1547 ) to HENRY VIII ( 1491-1547 ) who pressed him to renounce the pope's authority . Amis , souvenez - vous de Rocroy , de Fribourg et de Nord- lingen ! ( Friends , remember Rocroy ...
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... friends for having interceded in court for some worth- less man who was being tried . ( Plutarch , Lives : Phocion , x ) . Τοῦτο μὲν ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν , Θεμιστόκλεις , καλὸν δὲ καὶ στρατηγικὸν ἀληθῶς ἡ περὶ τὰς χεῖρας ἐγκράτεια . ( That ...
... friends for having interceded in court for some worth- less man who was being tried . ( Plutarch , Lives : Phocion , x ) . Τοῦτο μὲν ἀναγκαῖόν ἐστιν , Θεμιστόκλεις , καλὸν δὲ καὶ στρατηγικὸν ἀληθῶς ἡ περὶ τὰς χεῖρας ἐγκράτεια . ( That ...
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