Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... dying man . HUGH PETERS ( 1599-1660 ) — Last words , in reply to a remark by the hangman . Peters was executed Oct. 16 , 1660 .- ( Percy Anecdotes , vol . iii , p . 417 ) . Gentlemen , I am poor , very poor ; but your king is not rich ...
... dying man . HUGH PETERS ( 1599-1660 ) — Last words , in reply to a remark by the hangman . Peters was executed Oct. 16 , 1660 .- ( Percy Anecdotes , vol . iii , p . 417 ) . Gentlemen , I am poor , very poor ; but your king is not rich ...
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... dying Countess of Nottingham ( in 1603 ) , who con- fessed that she had kept a ring given her by the Earl of Essex to be returned to the Queen . Elizabeth is said to have even shaken the dying woman in her bed ( Hume , Hist . of Engl ...
... dying Countess of Nottingham ( in 1603 ) , who con- fessed that she had kept a ring given her by the Earl of Essex to be returned to the Queen . Elizabeth is said to have even shaken the dying woman in her bed ( Hume , Hist . of Engl ...
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... dying . GEORGE WHITEFIELD ( 1714-70 ) , founder of the Calvinistic Methodist Church - Last words . I am for equality . I think that men are entitled to equal rights , but to equal rights to unequal things . CHARLES JAMES FOX ( 1749 ...
... dying . GEORGE WHITEFIELD ( 1714-70 ) , founder of the Calvinistic Methodist Church - Last words . I am for equality . I think that men are entitled to equal rights , but to equal rights to unequal things . CHARLES JAMES FOX ( 1749 ...
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... 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 . " If I am alive , I shall be glad to see him ; if I am dead ...
... 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 . " If I am alive , I shall be glad to see him ; if I am dead ...
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... Dying words . I have heard , indeed , that two negatives make an affirma- tive ; but I never heard be- fore that two nothings ever made anything . DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM ( 1627- 88 ) -in a speech in the House of Lords . I have known thee ...
... Dying words . I have heard , indeed , that two negatives make an affirma- tive ; but I never heard be- fore that two nothings ever made anything . DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM ( 1627- 88 ) -in a speech in the House of Lords . I have known thee ...
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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