Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... uttered it . - L'Indépendant , June 20 , 1815 ; Thiers , Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire . See Dieu m'a confié & c . Really said by GENE- RAL COUNT MICHEL ( 1772-1815 ) . Cambronne is said to have uttered a single word , not fit for ...
... uttered it . - L'Indépendant , June 20 , 1815 ; Thiers , Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire . See Dieu m'a confié & c . Really said by GENE- RAL COUNT MICHEL ( 1772-1815 ) . Cambronne is said to have uttered a single word , not fit for ...
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... uttered by several barristers on the occasion of the visit of the Czar Alexander II ( 1818-81 ) to the Palais de Justice , Paris , June 4 , 1867 . Charles Floquet was said to have been one of them . Attributed to L. GAMBETTA ( 1838-82 ) ...
... uttered by several barristers on the occasion of the visit of the Czar Alexander II ( 1818-81 ) to the Palais de Justice , Paris , June 4 , 1867 . Charles Floquet was said to have been one of them . Attributed to L. GAMBETTA ( 1838-82 ) ...
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... uttered by SCIPIO AFRICANUS , MAJOR ( c . 234-183 B.C. ) to be placed on his tomb in Campania . He had left Rome in disgust , after his trial for having re- ceived bribes , although he had been acquitted ( Valer . Maximus , De Dictis ...
... uttered by SCIPIO AFRICANUS , MAJOR ( c . 234-183 B.C. ) to be placed on his tomb in Campania . He had left Rome in disgust , after his trial for having re- ceived bribes , although he had been acquitted ( Valer . Maximus , De Dictis ...
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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