Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... asked for and obtained his forgiveness . I feel now that I am dying . JEREMY BENTHAM ( 1748-1832 ) — Last words . I feel the flowers growing over me . JOHN KEATS ( 1796-1821 ) -Last words . Another version is : " I die of a broken heart ...
... asked for and obtained his forgiveness . I feel now that I am dying . JEREMY BENTHAM ( 1748-1832 ) — Last words . I feel the flowers growing over me . JOHN KEATS ( 1796-1821 ) -Last words . Another version is : " I die of a broken heart ...
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... asking for two shirts , the morning of his execution , Jan. 30 , 1649. ( Lingard , Hist . of Engl . , x , ch . 5. ) See ... asked the cause , replied , " My flesh trembles at the anticipa- tion of the many and great dangers into which my ...
... asking for two shirts , the morning of his execution , Jan. 30 , 1649. ( Lingard , Hist . of Engl . , x , ch . 5. ) See ... asked the cause , replied , " My flesh trembles at the anticipa- tion of the many and great dangers into which my ...
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... asked whether he knew her . Another version is : " Give my love to the world . " I have learnt again what I have often learnt before , that you should never take anything for granted . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] 1804-81 ...
... asked whether he knew her . Another version is : " Give my love to the world . " I have learnt again what I have often learnt before , that you should never take anything for granted . BENJAMIN DISRAELI [ Earl of Beaconsfield ] 1804-81 ...
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... asked if he had struck his colours , during a lull in the engagement . I have no wish to believe on that subject . THOMAS PAINE , author of The Rights of Man , & c . ( 1737-1809 ) --- Last words , in reply to his physician's question ...
... asked if he had struck his colours , during a lull in the engagement . I have no wish to believe on that subject . THOMAS PAINE , author of The Rights of Man , & c . ( 1737-1809 ) --- Last words , in reply to his physician's question ...
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... asked how he mixed his colours . " With Brains , Sir " is the title of a paper ( 1st series , 2nd paper ) in Dr. John Brown's Spare the Hours ( Boston 1883 ) , and paper begins with the anecdote of Opie . A similar saying is recorded of ...
... asked how he mixed his colours . " With Brains , Sir " is the title of a paper ( 1st series , 2nd paper ) in Dr. John Brown's Spare the Hours ( Boston 1883 ) , and paper begins with the anecdote of Opie . A similar saying is recorded 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 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