Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... homme sans éclat : Ce seroient paroles exquises Si c'étoit un grand qui parlât . " Pope , too , expresses a similar idea in his Essay on Criticism , pt . ii , ll . 220-1 . " But let a Lord once own the happy lines , How the wit ...
... homme sans éclat : Ce seroient paroles exquises Si c'étoit un grand qui parlât . " Pope , too , expresses a similar idea in his Essay on Criticism , pt . ii , ll . 220-1 . " But let a Lord once own the happy lines , How the wit ...
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... 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 false - it is for my readers to draw their own ...
... 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 false - it is for my readers to draw their own ...
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... homme absurde est celui qui ne change jamais ( The stupid man is he who alters . ) ( Barthélemy , Ma Justi- fication , 1832 ) never I drink with pleasure the health of all unfortunate princes . GEORGE II ( 1683-1760 ) —when challenged ...
... homme absurde est celui qui ne change jamais ( The stupid man is he who alters . ) ( Barthélemy , Ma Justi- fication , 1832 ) never I drink with pleasure the health of all unfortunate princes . GEORGE II ( 1683-1760 ) —when challenged ...
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... homme & c . Lay me quietly in the earth and put a sun - dial over my grave , and let me be for- gotten . JOHN HOWARD ( 1726 90 ) -Last words . Preceded by : " Suffer no monu- pomp at my funeral , nor mental inscription where I am laid ...
... homme & c . Lay me quietly in the earth and put a sun - dial over my grave , and let me be for- gotten . JOHN HOWARD ( 1726 90 ) -Last words . Preceded by : " Suffer no monu- pomp at my funeral , nor mental inscription where I am laid ...
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... homme inalade . The South ! The South ! God knows what will become of her ! CALHOUN JOHN CALDWELL ( 1782-1850 ) Last words . The splendid bridge from the Old World to the New . THOMAS CARLYLE ( 1795-81 ) —to Ralph Waldo Emerson , of ...
... homme inalade . The South ! The South ! God knows what will become of her ! CALHOUN JOHN CALDWELL ( 1782-1850 ) Last words . The splendid bridge from the Old World to the New . THOMAS CARLYLE ( 1795-81 ) —to Ralph Waldo Emerson , of ...
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