Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... speak of things imagin- ary as if they were real , while you preachers 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 were more ...
... speak of things imagin- ary as if they were real , while you preachers 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 were more ...
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... speaking ) . a social animal . DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 1769- 1852 ) -in a letter to Thomas Raikes , March 1 , 1841 . Assassination has never changed the history of the world . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -in a ...
... speaking ) . a social animal . DUKE OF WELLINGTON ( 1769- 1852 ) -in a letter to Thomas Raikes , March 1 , 1841 . Assassination has never changed the history of the world . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -in a ...
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... 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 under- takings . SIR HENRY WOTTON ( 1568-1639 ) -Advice ...
... 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 under- takings . SIR HENRY WOTTON ( 1568-1639 ) -Advice ...
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... speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held . ( Wordsworth , Poems dedicated to National Independence , pt . 1 , Son- net xvi . ) Give me time , and I will yet pro- duce works that the Academy ...
... speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held . ( Wordsworth , Poems dedicated to National Independence , pt . 1 , Son- net xvi . ) Give me time , and I will yet pro- duce works that the Academy ...
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... speak in the House of Commons , like papa . WILLIAM PITT ( 1759-1806 ) —- then only seven years old , when told that his father had been made Earl of Chatham , Aug. 1776. See Oh , Pitt never was a boy ! I am going on my journey : they ...
... speak in the House of Commons , like papa . WILLIAM PITT ( 1759-1806 ) —- then only seven years old , when told that his father had been made Earl of Chatham , Aug. 1776. See Oh , Pitt never was a boy ! I am going on my journey : they ...
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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