Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
From inside the book
Page
... vous des mots prêtés aux mourants . La mort n'est point bevarde : un soupir , un regard noyé dans les ombres suprêmes , un geste de la main se portant vers le cœur , quelques paroles confuses , mais surtout sans déclamation , voilà ...
... vous des mots prêtés aux mourants . La mort n'est point bevarde : un soupir , un regard noyé dans les ombres suprêmes , un geste de la main se portant vers le cœur , quelques paroles confuses , mais surtout sans déclamation , voilà ...
Page 15
... see Had I served my God & c . Farewell , France , farewell ! I shall never see thee more . See Adieu , chère France ! je ne vous verrai jamais plus ! Farewell , Oxford without a head ! DUKE OF ORMOND ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS 15.
... see Had I served my God & c . Farewell , France , farewell ! I shall never see thee more . See Adieu , chère France ! je ne vous verrai jamais plus ! Farewell , Oxford without a head ! DUKE OF ORMOND ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS 15.
Page 81
... Vous avez fait , monsieur , trois fautes d'orthographe . You sit upon a form , but you stand upon a ceremony . ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ( 1787- 1863 ) -replying to his own question , what is the difference between form and ceremony ? Youth ...
... Vous avez fait , monsieur , trois fautes d'orthographe . You sit upon a form , but you stand upon a ceremony . ARCHBISHOP WHATELY ( 1787- 1863 ) -replying to his own question , what is the difference between form and ceremony ? Youth ...
Page 82
... vous verrai jamais plus ! ( Adieu , dear France ! I shall never see you more ! ) Farewell of MARY STUART ( 1542- 87 ) to France . The lines " Adieu , plaisant pays de France . O ma patrie La plus chérie ! " etc. at one time attributed ...
... vous verrai jamais plus ! ( Adieu , dear France ! I shall never see you more ! ) Farewell of MARY STUART ( 1542- 87 ) to France . The lines " Adieu , plaisant pays de France . O ma patrie La plus chérie ! " etc. at one time attributed ...
Page 83
... vous - même , qui combattez contre votre foi et votre roi . ( Ah ! for God's sake , sir , don't pity me , but rather pity yourself , who are fighting against your religion and your king . ) Reply made by BAYARD ( 1475- 1524 ) when ...
... vous - même , qui combattez contre votre foi et votre roi . ( Ah ! for God's sake , sir , don't pity me , but rather pity yourself , who are fighting against your religion and your king . ) Reply made by BAYARD ( 1475- 1524 ) when ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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