Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... .啡 Bon mots , as such , have not been included , for as Voltaire Tacitus ( Annals , I , 74 ) has it : " Quia vera erant , dicta etiam credebantur . ” writes ( Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations vi PREFACE .
... .啡 Bon mots , as such , have not been included , for as Voltaire Tacitus ( Annals , I , 74 ) has it : " Quia vera erant , dicta etiam credebantur . ” writes ( Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations vi PREFACE .
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... VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) -said in English when blessing Franklin's grandson ( 1778 ) . He added " C'est la seule bénédiction qui convienne au petit - fils de M. Franklin . " ( It is the only fitting benediction for M. Franklin's grandson ) ...
... VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) -said in English when blessing Franklin's grandson ( 1778 ) . He added " C'est la seule bénédiction qui convienne au petit - fils de M. Franklin . " ( It is the only fitting benediction for M. Franklin's grandson ) ...
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... VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) -written ( in English ) in a letter to Lord Keith , Oct. 4 , 1759 . The murder of the Queen had been represented to me as a deed , lawful and meritorious . I die a firm Catholic . ANTHONY BABINGTON ( 1561-86 ) ...
... VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) -written ( in English ) in a letter to Lord Keith , Oct. 4 , 1759 . The murder of the Queen had been represented to me as a deed , lawful and meritorious . I die a firm Catholic . ANTHONY BABINGTON ( 1561-86 ) ...
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... VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) -Last words . Wagniere , Relation du Voyage de M. de Voltaire à Paris en 1778 , et de sa mort ( Mémoires sur Voltaire , etc. Longchamp and Wagnière , Paris , 1826 , p . 163. ) Adieu , prince sans terre . ( Adieu ...
... VOLTAIRE ( 1694-1778 ) -Last words . Wagniere , Relation du Voyage de M. de Voltaire à Paris en 1778 , et de sa mort ( Mémoires sur Voltaire , etc. Longchamp and Wagnière , Paris , 1826 , p . 163. ) Adieu , prince sans terre . ( Adieu ...
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... Voltaire quotes the phrase as ... le beau billet qu'a La Chatre ; " in a letter to the Comtesse de Lutzelbourg , Sep. 14 , 1753 ; also as " On sait l'aventure du beau billet qu'a La Châtre " in a letter Sur Mlle . de Lenclos à M ...
... Voltaire quotes the phrase as ... le beau billet qu'a La Chatre ; " in a letter to the Comtesse de Lutzelbourg , Sep. 14 , 1753 ; also as " On sait l'aventure du beau billet qu'a La Châtre " in a letter Sur Mlle . de Lenclos à M ...
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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