Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real , while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary . THOMAS BETTERTON ( 1635-1710 ) --- in reply to the Archbishop of Canterbury , who asked why actors ...
Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real , while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary . THOMAS BETTERTON ( 1635-1710 ) --- in reply to the Archbishop of Canterbury , who asked why actors ...
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[ Alluding to Beresford Hope's descent from the family of Hope of Amsterdam , and his action while speaking ) . .. a social animal . DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 17691852 ) —in a letter to Thomas Raikes , March 1 , 1841 .
[ Alluding to Beresford Hope's descent from the family of Hope of Amsterdam , and his action while speaking ) . .. a social animal . DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 17691852 ) —in a letter to Thomas Raikes , March 1 , 1841 .
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Ever speak the truth ; for , if you will do so , you shall never be believed , and ' twill put your adversaries ( who will still hunt counter ) to a loss in all their dispositions and undertakings . Sir HENRY WOTTON ( 1568-1639 ) ...
Ever speak the truth ; for , if you will do so , you shall never be believed , and ' twill put your adversaries ( who will still hunt counter ) to a loss in all their dispositions and undertakings . Sir HENRY WOTTON ( 1568-1639 ) ...
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C. We must be free or die , who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake : the faith and morals hold Which Milton held . ( Wordsworth , Poems dedicated to National Independence , pt . I , Sonnet xvi . ) Give me time , and I will yet ...
C. We must be free or die , who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake : the faith and morals hold Which Milton held . ( Wordsworth , Poems dedicated to National Independence , pt . I , Sonnet xvi . ) Give me time , and I will yet ...
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... not the eldest I want to speak in the House of Commons , like papa . William Pitt ( 1759-1806 ) -- then only seven years old , when told that his father had heen made Earl of Chatham , Aug. 1776. See Oh , Pitt never was a boy !
... not the eldest I want to speak in the House of Commons , like papa . William Pitt ( 1759-1806 ) -- then only seven years old , when told that his father had heen made Earl of Chatham , Aug. 1776. See Oh , Pitt never was a boy !
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| Title | Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin Casket Series Volume 7 of Sonnenschein's dictionaries of quotations |
| Author | Edward Latham |
| Publisher | Sonnenschein, 1904 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
| Length | 269 pages |
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