Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... French and German authors . Greek and Latin are only luxuries . DR . RICHARD PORSON , the Greek scholar , ( 1759-1808 ) . If I had strength enough to hold a pen , I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die . DR ...
... French and German authors . Greek and Latin are only luxuries . DR . RICHARD PORSON , the Greek scholar , ( 1759-1808 ) . If I had strength enough to hold a pen , I would write down how easy and pleasant a thing it is to die . DR ...
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... French marshals turning their backs on him and leaving the king's levée . Preceded by : " Don't distress your- self , sire , it is not " & c . It is small , very small indeed . ANNE BOLEYN ( 1507-36 ) wife of Henry VIII - Last words ...
... French marshals turning their backs on him and leaving the king's levée . Preceded by : " Don't distress your- self , sire , it is not " & c . It is small , very small indeed . ANNE BOLEYN ( 1507-36 ) wife of Henry VIII - Last words ...
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... French emigrants only had flowed - it was not British blood etc. ( Speeches of Sheridan , 1816 , vol . iv , pp . 106-7 ) It will be but a momentary pang . MAJOR JOHN ANDRÉ ( 1751-80 ) —— Last words before being shot as a spy , Oct. 2 ...
... French emigrants only had flowed - it was not British blood etc. ( Speeches of Sheridan , 1816 , vol . iv , pp . 106-7 ) It will be but a momentary pang . MAJOR JOHN ANDRÉ ( 1751-80 ) —— Last words before being shot as a spy , Oct. 2 ...
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... French word Oyez - Hear !, or listen ! Parliamentary speaking , like playing on the fiddle , requires practice . BENJAMINE DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -in a speech in the House of Commons , July 13 , 1871. Cf ...
... French word Oyez - Hear !, or listen ! Parliamentary speaking , like playing on the fiddle , requires practice . BENJAMINE DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] ( 1804-81 ) -in a speech in the House of Commons , July 13 , 1871. Cf ...
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... French war , in 1755 . Those who have loved longest love best . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-84 ) . Three acres and a cow . Phrase referring to the Small Holdings and Allotments Bill intro- duced by Mr. Jesse Collings in 1882 . Quoted ...
... French war , in 1755 . Those who have loved longest love best . DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON ( 1709-84 ) . Three acres and a cow . Phrase referring to the Small Holdings and Allotments Bill intro- duced by Mr. Jesse Collings in 1882 . Quoted ...
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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