Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... bien dans sa nature que , s'il ne l'a pas dit , il a dû le dire " In these cases the Italian saying , " se non è vero è ben trovato , is often very appropriate ; and , on the other hand , as Boileau writes ( L'Art poctique , iii , 48 ) ...
... bien dans sa nature que , s'il ne l'a pas dit , il a dû le dire " In these cases the Italian saying , " se non è vero è ben trovato , is often very appropriate ; and , on the other hand , as Boileau writes ( L'Art poctique , iii , 48 ) ...
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... bien public requiert qu'on trahisse , et qu'on mente , et qu'on Montaigne , Essais , massacre . bk . 3 , ch . 1. ( The public weal re- quires that a man should betray , and lie , and massacre . ) No man who ever held the office of ...
... bien public requiert qu'on trahisse , et qu'on mente , et qu'on Montaigne , Essais , massacre . bk . 3 , ch . 1. ( The public weal re- quires that a man should betray , and lie , and massacre . ) No man who ever held the office of ...
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... bien - aimée ! faut - il que je te quitte ? " ( Oh , my beloved ! I leave thee ? ) See Tu montreras ma tête & c . the Cry of the populace during the Revolution in the ears of the ' aristocrats , ' alluding to ' lanterne de la Grève ...
... bien - aimée ! faut - il que je te quitte ? " ( Oh , my beloved ! I leave thee ? ) See Tu montreras ma tête & c . the Cry of the populace during the Revolution in the ears of the ' aristocrats , ' alluding to ' lanterne de la Grève ...
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... bien autant que moi . " ( Things as they are will last as long as I shall . ) 66 66 66 Cf. " Il m'a raconté aussi que peignant Mme . de Pompadour , le roy , après l'affaire de Rosbach , " arriva fort triste , elle luy dit : qu'il ' ne ...
... bien autant que moi . " ( Things as they are will last as long as I shall . ) 66 66 66 Cf. " Il m'a raconté aussi que peignant Mme . de Pompadour , le roy , après l'affaire de Rosbach , " arriva fort triste , elle luy dit : qu'il ' ne ...
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... Bien , nous n'aurons pas besoin de sable . ( Good , we shan't want any sand [ to blot with ] . ) JUNOT ( 1771-1813 ) -at the siege of Toulon ( 1793 ) , Napoleon had just finished dictating a letter to Junot , ( then only a sergeant ) ...
... Bien , nous n'aurons pas besoin de sable . ( Good , we shan't want any sand [ to blot with ] . ) JUNOT ( 1771-1813 ) -at the siege of Toulon ( 1793 ) , Napoleon had just finished dictating a letter to Junot , ( then only a sergeant ) ...
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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