Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... faire usage quand même les faits qui les présentent seroient faux Les hommes sensés doivent regarder l'histoire comme un tissu de fables , dont la morale est très appropriée au cœur humain . ” Here are the sayings- fables or otherwise ...
... faire usage quand même les faits qui les présentent seroient faux Les hommes sensés doivent regarder l'histoire comme un tissu de fables , dont la morale est très appropriée au cœur humain . ” Here are the sayings- fables or otherwise ...
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... faire un public . This day let me see the Lord Jesus . JOHN JEWELL Bishop of Salis- bury , ( 1522-71 ) -Last words . This hand hath offended - this uuworthy hand . THOMAS CRANMER , [ Archbishop of Canterbury ] ( 1489-1556 ) -Last words ...
... faire un public . This day let me see the Lord Jesus . JOHN JEWELL Bishop of Salis- bury , ( 1522-71 ) -Last words . This hand hath offended - this uuworthy hand . THOMAS CRANMER , [ Archbishop of Canterbury ] ( 1489-1556 ) -Last words ...
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... faire des nobles quand je veux & c . JAMES I. ( 1566-1625 ) is credited with saying , " I can make a lord , but only God Almighty can make a gentleman . " You have risen by your gravity : I have sunk by my levity . JOHN HORNE TOOKE ...
... faire des nobles quand je veux & c . JAMES I. ( 1566-1625 ) is credited with saying , " I can make a lord , but only God Almighty can make a gentleman . " You have risen by your gravity : I have sunk by my levity . JOHN HORNE TOOKE ...
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... faire en deux minutes un homme comme vous ; et il faut un effort de la nature et vingt ans de travail pour faire un homme comme moi . ( With four ells of cloth the king can make a man like you in two minutes ; and it requires an effort ...
... faire en deux minutes un homme comme vous ; et il faut un effort de la nature et vingt ans de travail pour faire un homme comme moi . ( With four ells of cloth the king can make a man like you in two minutes ; and it requires an effort ...
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... faire un public ? ( How many fools are necessary to make a public ? ) In Chamfort's Caractères et Anecdotes ( vol 4 , pp . 217-8 ) there is an anecdote of someone not named , who used these words , when the public was spoken of as ...
... faire un public ? ( How many fools are necessary to make a public ? ) In Chamfort's Caractères et Anecdotes ( vol 4 , pp . 217-8 ) there is an anecdote of someone not named , who used these words , when the public was spoken of as ...
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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