Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin Edward Latham. PREFACE . I know not what profit there may be in the study of history , what value in the sayings of wise men , or in the recorded ...
A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin Edward Latham. PREFACE . I know not what profit there may be in the study of history , what value in the sayings of wise men , or in the recorded ...
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... saying , " se non è vero è ben trovato , is often very appropriate ; and , on the other hand , as Boileau writes ( L'Art poctique , iii , 48 ) , " Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable . " So that there is something to be ...
... saying , " se non è vero è ben trovato , is often very appropriate ; and , on the other hand , as Boileau writes ( L'Art poctique , iii , 48 ) , " Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable . " So that there is something to be ...
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... sayings . 22 A number of " dying words have been included , not so much because of any particular intrinsic merit they may possess , but rather on account of the interest they acquire from ... SAYINGS , FRENCH SAYINGS , PREFACE . vii.
... sayings . 22 A number of " dying words have been included , not so much because of any particular intrinsic merit they may possess , but rather on account of the interest they acquire from ... SAYINGS , FRENCH SAYINGS , PREFACE . vii.
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... SAYINGS as for the Press , I am myself a gentleman .. a battle of giants . DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 1769- 1852 ) in ... saying that " it became not a man to die like a beast ; " and died standing . ( Percy Anecdotes , vol ii , p . 102 ) ...
... SAYINGS as for the Press , I am myself a gentleman .. a battle of giants . DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 1769- 1852 ) in ... saying that " it became not a man to die like a beast ; " and died standing . ( Percy Anecdotes , vol ii , p . 102 ) ...
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... saying is said to have origin- ated from the following remark by SIR ROBERT WALPOLE ( 1676-1745 ) to Mr. Leveson : " You see with what zeal and vehemence those gentlemen oppose , and yet I know the price of every man in this house ...
... saying is said to have origin- ated from the following remark by SIR ROBERT WALPOLE ( 1676-1745 ) to Mr. Leveson : " You see with what zeal and vehemence those gentlemen oppose , and yet I know the price of every man in this house ...
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