Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Dieu et la liberté . God bless you . EDMUND BURKE ( 1729-97 ) —Last words . God bless you all . SIR WALTER SCOTT ( 1771-1832 ) -Last words . Other versions are : " I feel as if I were to be myself again ; " My dear , be a good man ; be ...
... Dieu et la liberté . God bless you . EDMUND BURKE ( 1729-97 ) —Last words . God bless you all . SIR WALTER SCOTT ( 1771-1832 ) -Last words . Other versions are : " I feel as if I were to be myself again ; " My dear , be a good man ; be ...
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... Dieu , & c .; Cf. " O Cromwell , Cromwell , Had I but served my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king , he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies . " ( Shak- spere , King Henry VIII , act 3. sc . 2 , II . 455-8 ...
... Dieu , & c .; Cf. " O Cromwell , Cromwell , Had I but served my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king , he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies . " ( Shak- spere , King Henry VIII , act 3. sc . 2 , II . 455-8 ...
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... Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons . One tongue is sufficient for a woman . JOHN MILTON ( 1608-74 ) -when asked whether he would instruct his daughters in foreign languages . Only three Crowns . SIR ROBERT WALPOLE ( 1676 . 1745 ) ...
... Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons . One tongue is sufficient for a woman . JOHN MILTON ( 1608-74 ) -when asked whether he would instruct his daughters in foreign languages . Only three Crowns . SIR ROBERT WALPOLE ( 1676 . 1745 ) ...
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... Dieu , monsieur , n'ayez pitié de moi , mais plutôt de 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 ...
... Dieu , monsieur , n'ayez pitié de moi , mais plutôt de 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 ...
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... Dieu , Sire , faites la paix pour la France , moi je meurs . ( In the name of God , Sire , make peace for France , I am dying . ) Revue des Deux Mondes , April 15 , 1857 , p . 904 . Dying words of MARSHAL LANNES , duc de Montebello ...
... Dieu , Sire , faites la paix pour la France , moi je meurs . ( In the name of God , Sire , make peace for France , I am dying . ) Revue des Deux Mondes , April 15 , 1857 , p . 904 . Dying words of MARSHAL LANNES , duc de Montebello ...
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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