Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... c'est une spoliation vérita- ble ; c'est une indignité . ( Ah ! it's a downright spolia- tion ; it's an insult . ) LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS ( 1797-1877 ) -alluding to the large amount ( £ 200,000,000 ) of the war indemnity exacted by the ...
... c'est une spoliation vérita- ble ; c'est une indignité . ( Ah ! it's a downright spolia- tion ; it's an insult . ) LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS ( 1797-1877 ) -alluding to the large amount ( £ 200,000,000 ) of the war indemnity exacted by the ...
Page 85
... c'est l'ennemi . " ( Help , Auvergne , it is the enemy ) Cf. also Lombard de Langres , Mémoires , bk . 2 , ch . 10 ( vol 1 , pp . 330-4 ) and Mrs. Hemans ' poem The Fall of d'Assas . A moi , mes amis , à moi ! ( Help , friends , help ...
... c'est l'ennemi . " ( Help , Auvergne , it is the enemy ) Cf. also Lombard de Langres , Mémoires , bk . 2 , ch . 10 ( vol 1 , pp . 330-4 ) and Mrs. Hemans ' poem The Fall of d'Assas . A moi , mes amis , à moi ! ( Help , friends , help ...
Page 88
... C'est fort bien dit , Robespierre ; mais je te répondrai comme Rousseau : ' Brûler n'est pas répondre . ' ( It is very well said , Robespierre ; but I shall answer with Rousseau that Burning , etc. ) . Grimm ( under date Sep. 15 , 1762 ) ...
... C'est fort bien dit , Robespierre ; mais je te répondrai comme Rousseau : ' Brûler n'est pas répondre . ' ( It is very well said , Robespierre ; but I shall answer with Rousseau that Burning , etc. ) . Grimm ( under date Sep. 15 , 1762 ) ...
Page 89
... c'est la mort de ce grand homme . ( It isn't for me that you should weep , but for the death of this great man . ) Mémoires de Saint Hilaire , 1766 , vol . i , p . 205 . SAINT HILAIRE , lieutenant- general of artillery - to his son . A ...
... c'est la mort de ce grand homme . ( It isn't for me that you should weep , but for the death of this great man . ) Mémoires de Saint Hilaire , 1766 , vol . i , p . 205 . SAINT HILAIRE , lieutenant- general of artillery - to his son . A ...
Page 90
... c'est la meilleure des républiques " ( it is & c . ) are given in the Moniteur universel of Aug. 8 , 1830 , as having been said by Lafay ette the day before , and M. Louis Blanc ( Histoire de dix ans , vol . i , p . 347 , 1841 edition ) ...
... c'est la meilleure des républiques " ( it is & c . ) are given in the Moniteur universel of Aug. 8 , 1830 , as having been said by Lafay ette the day before , and M. Louis Blanc ( Histoire de dix ans , vol . i , p . 347 , 1841 edition ) ...
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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