Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... written upon my heart . QUEEN MARY I ( 1517-58 ) -Last words , alluding to England's loss of that town . Another version is : " When I die , Calais ' will be found written on my heart : " cf. " Were I to die at this moment , " want of ...
... written upon my heart . QUEEN MARY I ( 1517-58 ) -Last words , alluding to England's loss of that town . Another version is : " When I die , Calais ' will be found written on my heart : " cf. " Were I to die at this moment , " want of ...
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... written inside the lid . ( Gentleman's Magazine , vol . 51 , p . 324 note ) . Another version is : " Sir , the man that will make such an ex- ecrable pun as that in my company , will pick my pocket . ' ( Benjamin Victor , An Epistle to ...
... written inside the lid . ( Gentleman's Magazine , vol . 51 , p . 324 note ) . Another version is : " Sir , the man that will make such an ex- ecrable pun as that in my company , will pick my pocket . ' ( Benjamin Victor , An Epistle to ...
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... written underneath was : " If thy heart fails thee , why then climb at all ? " ( see Fuller , Worthies ) . is : Another version " Fain would I climb , but that I fear to fall , " and " If thy mind fail thee , do not climb at all ...
... written underneath was : " If thy heart fails thee , why then climb at all ? " ( see Fuller , Worthies ) . is : Another version " Fain would I climb , but that I fear to fall , " and " If thy mind fail thee , do not climb at all ...
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... writing his laws , said that written laws were just like spiders ' webs ; for , like them , they caught the weaker criminals , but were broken through by the stronger and more important . ( Plutarch , Life of Solon , V. ) Cf. “ Où la ...
... writing his laws , said that written laws were just like spiders ' webs ; for , like them , they caught the weaker criminals , but were broken through by the stronger and more important . ( Plutarch , Life of Solon , V. ) Cf. “ Où la ...
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... written from Coimbra , May 31 , 1809 , to the Rt . Hon . J. Villiers . See The English nation is never so great as in adversity . I have long been of the opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British ...
... written from Coimbra , May 31 , 1809 , to the Rt . Hon . J. Villiers . See The English nation is never so great as in adversity . I have long been of the opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British ...
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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