Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... honour . As a man advances in life , he gets what is better than admiration - judgment , to es timate things at their true value . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709- 84 ) ( Boswell's Life of Johnson , ed . 1824 , vol ii , p . 335 ) . as good ...
... honour . As a man advances in life , he gets what is better than admiration - judgment , to es timate things at their true value . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709- 84 ) ( Boswell's Life of Johnson , ed . 1824 , vol ii , p . 335 ) . as good ...
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... honour I gained them , and in honour I will die with them . LORD NELSON ( 1758-1805 ) -of his decorations ( not at the battle of Trafalgar , Oct. 21 , 1805 , but on a previous occasion ) , when it was hinted that they rendered him a ...
... honour I gained them , and in honour I will die with them . LORD NELSON ( 1758-1805 ) -of his decorations ( not at the battle of Trafalgar , Oct. 21 , 1805 , but on a previous occasion ) , when it was hinted that they rendered him a ...
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... honour that bled at every vein . RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ( 1751-80 ) -in the House of Com- mons , Oct. 29 , 1795 , alluding to the conduct of Commodore Warren at Quiberon , Oct. 27 , 1795. Pre- ceded by : " it was true , the blood of ...
... honour that bled at every vein . RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ( 1751-80 ) -in the House of Com- mons , Oct. 29 , 1795 , alluding to the conduct of Commodore Warren at Quiberon , Oct. 27 , 1795. Pre- ceded by : " it was true , the blood of ...
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... honour . BENJAMIN Beaconsfield ] DISRAELI [ Lord ( 1804-81 ) -on his return from the Berlin Congress , July 16 , 1878 , said : " Lord Salis- bury and myself have brought you back peace - but a peace , I hope , with honour , which may ...
... honour . BENJAMIN Beaconsfield ] DISRAELI [ Lord ( 1804-81 ) -on his return from the Berlin Congress , July 16 , 1878 , said : " Lord Salis- bury and myself have brought you back peace - but a peace , I hope , with honour , which may ...
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... honour- able gentleman , who certainly enjoys the full maturity of manhood , " & c . : also , " I beseech you let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation ; for I never knew so young a body with SO old a ...
... honour- able gentleman , who certainly enjoys the full maturity of manhood , " & c . : also , " I beseech you let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation ; for I never knew so young a body with SO old a ...
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