Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... honour , which may satisfy our Sovereign , and tend to the welfare of the country . Cf. 66 The superior power may offer peace with honour and with safety . -Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America , March 22 , 1775 ( Works , vol i ...
... honour , which may satisfy our Sovereign , and tend to the welfare of the country . Cf. 66 The superior power may offer peace with honour and with safety . -Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America , March 22 , 1775 ( Works , vol i ...
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... honour of combin- ing before you ) . Remark said to have been made by BARON THÉNARD ( 1777-1857 ) on the occasion of a visit of the DUC D'ANGOULÈME ( 1775-1Ɛ44 ) to the Ecole polytechnique . Another ver- sion is that the phrase was used ...
... honour of combin- ing before you ) . Remark said to have been made by BARON THÉNARD ( 1777-1857 ) on the occasion of a visit of the DUC D'ANGOULÈME ( 1775-1Ɛ44 ) to the Ecole polytechnique . Another ver- sion is that the phrase was used ...
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... honour and my life , which is safe ) .- A . Champollion - Figeac , Captivite du roi François 1er , p . 129 . Three centuries later , another great personage was to repeat the phrase in all its brevity . When NAPOLEON , after the defeat ...
... honour and my life , which is safe ) .- A . Champollion - Figeac , Captivite du roi François 1er , p . 129 . Three centuries later , another great personage was to repeat the phrase in all its brevity . When NAPOLEON , after the defeat ...
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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