Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... honour . As a man advances in life , he gets what is better than admiration - judgment , to estimate things at their true | value . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 170984 ) ( Boswell's Life of Johnson , ed . 1824 , vol ii , p . 335 ) . as good as ...
... honour . As a man advances in life , he gets what is better than admiration - judgment , to estimate things at their true | value . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 170984 ) ( Boswell's Life of Johnson , ed . 1824 , vol ii , p . 335 ) . as good as ...
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... honour I gained them , and in honour I will die with them . LORD NELSON ( 1758-1805 ) —of his decorations ( not at the battle of Trafalgar , Oct. 21 , 1805 , but on a previous occasion ) , when it was hinted that they rendered him a ...
... honour I gained them , and in honour I will die with them . LORD NELSON ( 1758-1805 ) —of his decorations ( not at the battle of Trafalgar , Oct. 21 , 1805 , but on a previous occasion ) , when it was hinted that they rendered him a ...
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... honour that bled at every vein . RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ( 1751-80 ) -in the House of Commons , Oct. 29 , 1795 , alluding to the conduct of Commodore Warren at Quiberon , Oct. 27 , 1795. Preceded by : " .. it was true , the blood of ...
... honour that bled at every vein . RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ( 1751-80 ) -in the House of Commons , Oct. 29 , 1795 , alluding to the conduct of Commodore Warren at Quiberon , Oct. 27 , 1795. Preceded by : " .. it was true , the blood of ...
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... honour , which may satisfy our Sovereign , and tend to the welfare of the country . ' Cf. " The superior power may offer peace with honour and with safety . " - Burke's Speech Conciliation with America March 22 , 1775 ( Works , vol i ...
... honour , which may satisfy our Sovereign , and tend to the welfare of the country . ' Cf. " The superior power may offer peace with honour and with safety . " - Burke's Speech Conciliation with America March 22 , 1775 ( Works , vol i ...
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... honour at Leeds , Oct. 7 , 1881 . a The right honourable gentleman [ Sir Robert Peel ] caught the Whigs bathing , and walked away with their clothes . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -in speech on the opening of ...
... honour at Leeds , Oct. 7 , 1881 . a The right honourable gentleman [ Sir Robert Peel ] caught the Whigs bathing , and walked away with their clothes . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -in speech on the opening of ...
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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 Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor Engl England fait faut femme Français France French friends grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN JULIUS CAESAR June king Laertius 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 peace Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il Queen quoted referring Reichstag reply saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thee thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ τοὺς
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Page 64 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter ! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 20 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 117 - C'est de lui que nous vient cet art ingénieux De peindre la parole et de parler aux yeux, Et par les traits divers de figures tracées, Donner de la couleur et du corps aux pensées".
Page 29 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman ; but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and of a King of England too...
Page 9 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 203 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 147 - Quand le gouvernement viole les droits du peuple, l'insurrection est pour le peuple et pour chaque portion du peuple le plus sacré des droits et le plus indispensable des devoirs.
Page 28 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 226 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 75 - Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman * who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue.
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| Title | Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin Volume 7 of Sonnenschein's dictionaries of quotations |
| Author | Edward Latham |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Swan Sonnenschein, 1906 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 318 pages |
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