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2 ) seem very appropriate here : “ Tous les discours sont des sotlises , Partant It'un homme sans éclat : Ce seroient paroles exquises Si c'étoit un grand qui parlåt . " Pope , too , expresses a similar idea in his Essay on Criticism ...
2 ) seem very appropriate here : “ Tous les discours sont des sotlises , Partant It'un homme sans éclat : Ce seroient paroles exquises Si c'étoit un grand qui parlåt . " Pope , too , expresses a similar idea in his Essay on Criticism ...
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I shall soon know the grand secret . ARTHUR THISI LEWOOD ( 17701820 , -Dying words , at his execution for high treason , May 1 , 1820 . ( Annual Register ) . See Je vais quérir un grand peut - être . I should like to record the thoughts ...
I shall soon know the grand secret . ARTHUR THISI LEWOOD ( 17701820 , -Dying words , at his execution for high treason , May 1 , 1820 . ( Annual Register ) . See Je vais quérir un grand peut - être . I should like to record the thoughts ...
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See I shall soon know the grand secret . Now God be praised ! I die happy . GENERAL JAMES WOLFE ( 1726 . 59 ) , killed in the battle of QuebecLast words , on hearing the cry > “ They run ! ” and being told that 46 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ...
See I shall soon know the grand secret . Now God be praised ! I die happy . GENERAL JAMES WOLFE ( 1726 . 59 ) , killed in the battle of QuebecLast words , on hearing the cry > “ They run ! ” and being told that 46 ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ...
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The 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 ) .
The 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 ) .
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Ce n'est pas moi qu'il faut pleurer , c'est la mort de ce grand homme . ( It isn't for me that you should weep , but for the death of this great man . ) Mimoires de Saint Hilaire , 1766 , vol . i , p . 205 .
Ce n'est pas moi qu'il faut pleurer , c'est la mort de ce grand homme . ( It isn't for me that you should weep , but for the death of this great man . ) Mimoires de Saint Hilaire , 1766 , vol . i , p . 205 .
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| Title | Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin Casket Series Volume 7 of Sonnenschein's dictionaries of quotations |
| Author | Edward Latham |
| Publisher | Sonnenschein, 1904 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
| Length | 269 pages |
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