Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Grand - Duchess Hélène . He said " Tenez , nous avons sur les " bras un homme malade . " ( We have on our hands a sick man . ) Also said to have been used by him when in England in 1844 in con- versation with the Duke of Welling- ton ...
... Grand - Duchess Hélène . He said " Tenez , nous avons sur les " bras un homme malade . " ( We have on our hands a sick man . ) Also said to have been used by him when in England in 1844 in con- versation with the Duke of Welling- ton ...
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... grand qui parlât . " Pope , too , expresses a similar idea in his Essay on Criticism , pt . ii , ll . 220-1 . " But let a Lord once own the happy lines , How the wit brightens ! how the style retines ! " But , without either adopting M ...
... grand qui parlât . " Pope , too , expresses a similar idea in his Essay on Criticism , pt . ii , ll . 220-1 . " But let a Lord once own the happy lines , How the wit brightens ! how the style retines ! " But , without either adopting M ...
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... grand secret . ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD ( 1770- 1820 , -Dying words , at his execu- tion for high treason , May 1 , 1820 . ( Annual Register ) . See Je vais quérir un grand peut - être . I should like to record the thoughts of a dying man for ...
... grand secret . ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD ( 1770- 1820 , -Dying words , at his execu- tion for high treason , May 1 , 1820 . ( Annual Register ) . See Je vais quérir un grand peut - être . I should like to record the thoughts of a dying man for ...
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... grand secret . Now God be praised ! I die happy . GENERAL JAMES WOLFE ( 1726- 59 ) , killed in the battle of Quebec- Last words , on hearing the cry " They run ! " and being told that it 46 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS.
... grand secret . Now God be praised ! I die happy . GENERAL JAMES WOLFE ( 1726- 59 ) , killed in the battle of Quebec- Last words , on hearing the cry " They run ! " and being told that it 46 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS.
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... grand old man . A term applied to the Rt . Hon . W. E. Gladstone ( 1809-98 ) and at- tributed by Sir W. V. Harcourt ( in a speech at Derby , April 25 , 1882 ) to Sir Stafford Northcote ( now Lord Iddesleigh ) . Whoever first applied it ...
... grand old man . A term applied to the Rt . Hon . W. E. Gladstone ( 1809-98 ) and at- tributed by Sir W. V. Harcourt ( in a speech at Derby , April 25 , 1882 ) to Sir Stafford Northcote ( now Lord Iddesleigh ) . Whoever first applied it ...
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ABBÉ Adieu Alexander alluding Apophthegmata asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog Bishop c'est Caesar CARDINAL CARDINAL MAZARIN Chamber of Deputies Charles comte death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius Duke Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor Engl England fait faut femme français France French friends George HENRI IV Henry Hist homme honour House of Commons j'ai jamais James John JULIUS CAESAR June king l'homme Last words letter Lives Lord LOUIS XIV LOUIS XVIII MARSHAL Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Monsieur mort n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Père Philip Phocion phrase Plutarch President PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il Queen quoted referring Reichstag reply saying sire soldiers speech Thomas thou tout uttered Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM ἂν γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ τοὺς τῶν
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