Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... king , he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies . " ( Shak- spere , King Henry VIII , act 3. sc . 2 , ll . 455-8 . ) Hailing with horrid melody the moon . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -Phrase ...
... king , he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies . " ( Shak- spere , King Henry VIII , act 3. sc . 2 , ll . 455-8 . ) Hailing with horrid melody the moon . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -Phrase ...
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... king touches thee , God cures thee ! ) Phrase used by the kings of France when touching for scrofula or King's evil , after being anointed . According to Père Daniel's Histoire de France , Robert II ( 970-1031 ) surnamed le Pieux ( the ...
... king touches thee , God cures thee ! ) Phrase used by the kings of France when touching for scrofula or King's evil , after being anointed . According to Père Daniel's Histoire de France , Robert II ( 970-1031 ) surnamed le Pieux ( the ...
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... King of Arragon , and to Pope Martin IV : " Si ma chemise savait 66 mon dessein , je la brûlerais . " ( If my shirt ... king ? ) Adalbert , comte de Périgueux , who had usurped the titles of comte de Poitiers and de Tours , received a ...
... King of Arragon , and to Pope Martin IV : " Si ma chemise savait 66 mon dessein , je la brûlerais . " ( If my shirt ... king ? ) Adalbert , comte de Périgueux , who had usurped the titles of comte de Poitiers and de Tours , received a ...
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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