Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Quoted derisively by Sir Michael Hicks Beach , and promptly dis- avowed by him in that sense , the phrase has become a saying useful alike to advocates and opponents of the general idea of allotments and small holdings . The phrase is ...
... Quoted derisively by Sir Michael Hicks Beach , and promptly dis- avowed by him in that sense , the phrase has become a saying useful alike to advocates and opponents of the general idea of allotments and small holdings . The phrase is ...
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... quoted by MARIE - CHAR DE CORDAY D'ARMONT ( 1768-93 ) at the end of a letter of farewell to her father , after murdering J.-P. Marat ( 1744-93 ) . Charlotte Corday was a descendant of Corneille . Le diable m'emporte ! laissez- les dire ...
... quoted by MARIE - CHAR DE CORDAY D'ARMONT ( 1768-93 ) at the end of a letter of farewell to her father , after murdering J.-P. Marat ( 1744-93 ) . Charlotte Corday was a descendant of Corneille . Le diable m'emporte ! laissez- les dire ...
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... quoted ) the phrase to his son , after a Ministerial dinner : " Behold with what little wisdom the " world is governed . " 66 Cf. for thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world . " - ( John Selden , Table Talk ...
... quoted ) the phrase to his son , after a Ministerial dinner : " Behold with what little wisdom the " world is governed . " 66 Cf. for thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the whole world . " - ( John Selden , Table Talk ...
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