Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... J'ai 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 ...
... J'ai 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 ...
Page 84
... j'ai refusé mieux ! ( How absurd ! I have refused better ! ) Reply of BEAUMARCHAIS ( 1732- 99 ) to the COMTE DE LA BLACHE'S challenge to fight . He was referring to the Duc de Chaulnes ( ? 1741-93 ) Allons , petite créole , venez vous ...
... j'ai refusé mieux ! ( How absurd ! I have refused better ! ) Reply of BEAUMARCHAIS ( 1732- 99 ) to the COMTE DE LA BLACHE'S challenge to fight . He was referring to the Duc de Chaulnes ( ? 1741-93 ) Allons , petite créole , venez vous ...
Page 90
... j'ai pitié de vous qui avez pro- noncé ces mots : J'y suis contraint ! Ce n'est pas parler en roi . " ( Sire , you have several times told me you pitied me ; but I pity you who have uttered these words : I am compelled to do it ! That ...
... j'ai pitié de vous qui avez pro- noncé ces mots : J'y suis contraint ! Ce n'est pas parler en roi . " ( Sire , you have several times told me you pitied me ; but I pity you who have uttered these words : I am compelled to do it ! That ...
Page 97
... j'ai tant " de fois donné l'exemple , est " permise , et je m'honore de la posséder . " ( Individual audacity is , of course , reprehensible ; but national audacity , of which I have so many times given the example , is permis- sible ...
... j'ai tant " de fois donné l'exemple , est " permise , et je m'honore de la posséder . " ( Individual audacity is , of course , reprehensible ; but national audacity , of which I have so many times given the example , is permis- sible ...
Page 99
... j'ai oui conter à ses amis . avait accoutume de dire qu'avec deux lignes de l'écriture d'un homme on paurrait faire le procès au plus innocent . " ( . accord- ing to the methods of the cardinal himself , who , as I have heard his ...
... j'ai oui conter à ses amis . avait accoutume de dire qu'avec deux lignes de l'écriture d'un homme on paurrait faire le procès au plus innocent . " ( . accord- ing to the methods of the cardinal himself , who , as I have heard his ...
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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