Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... MIRABEAU ( 1749-91 ) —in a speech to the Constituent Assembly . See Hannibal ad portas . Ce fanfaron de crimes . ( This boaster of crimes . ) - St . Simon , Mémoires , vol . vi . , p . 268 . ( Hachette ) . LOUIS XIV ( 1638-1715 ) —of ...
... MIRABEAU ( 1749-91 ) —in a speech to the Constituent Assembly . See Hannibal ad portas . Ce fanfaron de crimes . ( This boaster of crimes . ) - St . Simon , Mémoires , vol . vi . , p . 268 . ( Hachette ) . LOUIS XIV ( 1638-1715 ) —of ...
Page 107
... Mirabeau ! Je " n'avais pas besoin de cette leçon 46 66 pour savoir qu'il n'y a qu ' un pasdu Capitole à la roche Tarpéienne ! " ( And they wanted a few days ago to carry me too in triumph ; and now they cry Great treason of Count Mirabeau ...
... Mirabeau ! Je " n'avais pas besoin de cette leçon 46 66 pour savoir qu'il n'y a qu ' un pasdu Capitole à la roche Tarpéienne ! " ( And they wanted a few days ago to carry me too in triumph ; and now they cry Great treason of Count Mirabeau ...
Page 108
... not just that a man of sense like myself should risk death at the hands of a fool like him . ) A saying of MIRABEAU ( 1749-91 when challenged to a duel . Il n'est pas nécessaire de con- naître quelqu'un pour lui 108 FRENCH SAYINGS.
... not just that a man of sense like myself should risk death at the hands of a fool like him . ) A saying of MIRABEAU ( 1749-91 when challenged to a duel . Il n'est pas nécessaire de con- naître quelqu'un pour lui 108 FRENCH SAYINGS.
Page 120
... MIRABEAU ( 1749- 91 ) , to FROCHOT . A. Mézières , Vie de Mirabeau , p . 323 . Je m'y ferai porter , et nous sauterons ensemble . ( I'll have myself carried there , and we will be blown up together . ) Attributed to Louis XVIII ( 1755 ...
... MIRABEAU ( 1749- 91 ) , to FROCHOT . A. Mézières , Vie de Mirabeau , p . 323 . Je m'y ferai porter , et nous sauterons ensemble . ( I'll have myself carried there , and we will be blown up together . ) Attributed to Louis XVIII ( 1755 ...
Page 126
... MIRABEAU ( 1749- 91 ) , to one of his friends who was supporting his head . Followed by : " J'emporte avec moi " etc. ( q.v . ) — A. Mezieres , vie de Mirabeau , p . 322 . See Je vous ai assemblés pour me mettre en tutelle entre vos ...
... MIRABEAU ( 1749- 91 ) , to one of his friends who was supporting his head . Followed by : " J'emporte avec moi " etc. ( q.v . ) — A. Mezieres , vie de Mirabeau , p . 322 . See Je vous ai assemblés pour me mettre en tutelle entre vos ...
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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 mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς