Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Mort au champ d'honneur . J'emporte avec moi le deuil de la monarchie ; après ma mort , les factieux s'en disputeront les lambeaux . ( I carry away with me the mourning of monarchy ; after my death , the factionists will quarrel over ...
... Mort au champ d'honneur . J'emporte avec moi le deuil de la monarchie ; après ma mort , les factieux s'en disputeront les lambeaux . ( I carry away with me the mourning of monarchy ; after my death , the factionists will quarrel over ...
Page 129
... mort , etc. ( There is no need to die bit by bit , death , etc. ) " " La mort sans phrase . ( Death without words . ) The ABBE SIEVÈS ( 1748-1836 ) is credited with having used these words in voting for the death of LOUIS XVI ( Jan. 16 ...
... mort , etc. ( There is no need to die bit by bit , death , etc. ) " " La mort sans phrase . ( Death without words . ) The ABBE SIEVÈS ( 1748-1836 ) is credited with having used these words in voting for the death of LOUIS XVI ( Jan. 16 ...
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... Mort aux tyrans , paix aux chaumines . ( Death to the tyrants , peace to the cottages . ) Oath taken by the Jacobins ( Tan . 21 , 1794 ) , on the anniversary of LOUIS XVI's ( 1754-93 ) death , at the foot of the statue of Liberty ...
... Mort aux tyrans , paix aux chaumines . ( Death to the tyrants , peace to the cottages . ) Oath taken by the Jacobins ( Tan . 21 , 1794 ) , on the anniversary of LOUIS XVI's ( 1754-93 ) death , at the foot of the statue of Liberty ...
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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