Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... chosen .啡 Bon mots , as such , have not been included , for as Voltaire Tacitus ( Annals , I , 74 ) has it : " Quia vera erant , dicta etiam credebantur . ” writes ( Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations vi PREFACE .
... chosen .啡 Bon mots , as such , have not been included , for as Voltaire Tacitus ( Annals , I , 74 ) has it : " Quia vera erant , dicta etiam credebantur . ” writes ( Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations vi PREFACE .
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... nations , ch . cxlv ) . " La plupart des bons mots ne sont que des redites . " This criticism , as will be seen in these pages , applies also , although perhaps in a less degree , to many historical sayings . 22 A number of " dying ...
... nations , ch . cxlv ) . " La plupart des bons mots ne sont que des redites . " This criticism , as will be seen in these pages , applies also , although perhaps in a less degree , to many historical sayings . 22 A number of " dying ...
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... nation is not governed which is perpetually to be con- quered . EDMUND BURKE ( 1729 97 ) — alluding to the character of the Americans . • and he adores his maker . JOHN BRIGHT ( 1811-89 ) -when told that he ought to give Ben- jamin ...
... nation is not governed which is perpetually to be con- quered . EDMUND BURKE ( 1729 97 ) — alluding to the character of the Americans . • and he adores his maker . JOHN BRIGHT ( 1811-89 ) -when told that he ought to give Ben- jamin ...
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... nation " ( March- mont Papers , vol . ii , p . 123 ) . Also by SIR ROBERT WALPOLE ( 1676-1745 ) -see Dict . Nat . Biog . , vol . lix , p . 203 . an untoward event . The DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 1769-1852 ) -alluding to the battle of ...
... nation " ( March- mont Papers , vol . ii , p . 123 ) . Also by SIR ROBERT WALPOLE ( 1676-1745 ) -see Dict . Nat . Biog . , vol . lix , p . 203 . an untoward event . The DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 1769-1852 ) -alluding to the battle of ...
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... nation . FISHER AMES ( 1758-1808 ) -in a speech on the British Treaty , April 28 , 1796 . A university should be a place of light , of liberty , and of learn- ing . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) —in a speech in ...
... nation . FISHER AMES ( 1758-1808 ) -in a speech on the British Treaty , April 28 , 1796 . A university should be a place of light , of liberty , and of learn- ing . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) —in a speech in ...
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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