Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... leave off action , putting his glass to his blind eye . Preceded by : " Leave off action ? Now , damn me if I do ! You know , Foley , " turning to the Captain , " I have only one eye , -I have a right to be blind sometimes . " ( Southey ...
... leave off action , putting his glass to his blind eye . Preceded by : " Leave off action ? Now , damn me if I do ! You know , Foley , " turning to the Captain , " I have only one eye , -I have a right to be blind sometimes . " ( Southey ...
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... leave us , but I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders . - JOHN PYM ( 1584-1643 ) — when Sir Thomas Wentworth was raised to the peerage as Earl of Strafford . You are no longer a parliament : I tell you , you are ...
... leave us , but I will never leave you while your head is upon your shoulders . - JOHN PYM ( 1584-1643 ) — when Sir Thomas Wentworth was raised to the peerage as Earl of Strafford . You are no longer a parliament : I tell you , you are ...
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... leaves the game loses it ) .— Also a proverbial expression . Remark made by the ARCH- BISHOP OF LYONS to the DUC DE GUISE ( 1550-88 ) when he seemed to have decided to leave Blois . He replied : " Mes affaires sont réduites 66 66 66 en ...
... leaves the game loses it ) .— Also a proverbial expression . Remark made by the ARCH- BISHOP OF LYONS to the DUC DE GUISE ( 1550-88 ) when he seemed to have decided to leave Blois . He replied : " Mes affaires sont réduites 66 66 66 en ...
Contents
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS I | 1 |
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
Bibliographic information
| Title | Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
| Author | Edward Latham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 15 May 2012 |
| ISBN | 0810331411, 9780810331419 |
| Length | 269 pages |
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