Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... rien à dire ; la strophe est belle . ( There is nothing to be said ; the stanza is fine . ) VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) —on hear- ing some lines by LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN ( in his Ode sur J. B. Rousseau . ) Lefranc and Voltaire were literary ...
... rien à dire ; la strophe est belle . ( There is nothing to be said ; the stanza is fine . ) VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) —on hear- ing some lines by LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN ( in his Ode sur J. B. Rousseau . ) Lefranc and Voltaire were literary ...
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... rien oublier , ni rien apprendre . ( . . . no one has reformed , no one has known how to either forget or learn any- thing . ) - Mémoires et correspond- ance de Mallet du Pan , 1851 , vol . ii , p . 196. Twenty years later , at the time ...
... rien oublier , ni rien apprendre . ( . . . no one has reformed , no one has known how to either forget or learn any- thing . ) - Mémoires et correspond- ance de Mallet du Pan , 1851 , vol . ii , p . 196. Twenty years later , at the time ...
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... Rien ne manque à sa gloire , il manquait à la nôtre : ( Nothing is wanting to his glory , he was wanting to ours . ) Inscription on a statue of MOLIÈRE ( 1622-73 ) at the French Academy ( 1773 ) and suggested by B.-J. SAURIN ( 1706-81 ) ...
... Rien ne manque à sa gloire , il manquait à la nôtre : ( Nothing is wanting to his glory , he was wanting to ours . ) Inscription on a statue of MOLIÈRE ( 1622-73 ) at the French Academy ( 1773 ) and suggested by B.-J. SAURIN ( 1706-81 ) ...
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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