Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... faits qui les présentent seroient faux Les hommes sensés doivent regarder l'histoire comme un tissu de fables , dont la morale est très appropriée au cœur humain . ” Here are the sayings- fables or otherwise , partly true or wholly ...
... faits qui les présentent seroient faux Les hommes sensés doivent regarder l'histoire comme un tissu de fables , dont la morale est très appropriée au cœur humain . ” Here are the sayings- fables or otherwise , partly true or wholly ...
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... fait pour Dieu , & c .; Cf. " O Cromwell , Cromwell , Had I but served my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king , he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies . " ( Shak- spere , King Henry VIII , act 3. sc . 2 , II ...
... fait pour Dieu , & c .; Cf. " O Cromwell , Cromwell , Had I but served my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king , he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies . " ( Shak- spere , King Henry VIII , act 3. sc . 2 , II ...
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... faits ; and Je donnerais pour l'avoir fait & c . I would rather eat a dry crust at a king's table than feast on luxuries at that of an elector . ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA , daughter of James I of England ( 1596-1662 ) -to her husband , the ...
... faits ; and Je donnerais pour l'avoir fait & c . I would rather eat a dry crust at a king's table than feast on luxuries at that of an elector . ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA , daughter of James I of England ( 1596-1662 ) -to her husband , the ...
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... fait dix mécontents et un ingrat . No mortal man can live after the glories which God has mani- fested to my soul . REV . AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY ( 1740-78 ) author of the hymn Rock of Ages - Last words . None but Christ ! none but ...
... fait dix mécontents et un ingrat . No mortal man can live after the glories which God has mani- fested to my soul . REV . AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY ( 1740-78 ) author of the hymn Rock of Ages - Last words . None but Christ ! none but ...
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... fait , monsieur , trois fautes d'orthographe . You sit upon a form , but you stand upon a ceremony . ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ( 1787- 1863 ) -replying to his own question , what is the difference between form and ceremony ? Youth , I forgive ...
... fait , monsieur , trois fautes d'orthographe . You sit upon a form , but you stand upon a ceremony . ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ( 1787- 1863 ) -replying to his own question , what is the difference between form and ceremony ? Youth , I forgive ...
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