Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... enemy . Another version is : " Then God be praised ! I shall die happy . See I die happy . 39 There is still another version : Support me , let not my brave soldiers see me drop . The day is ours ! Oh , keep it ! " - uttered to those ...
... enemy . Another version is : " Then God be praised ! I shall die happy . See I die happy . 39 There is still another version : Support me , let not my brave soldiers see me drop . The day is ours ! Oh , keep it ! " - uttered to those ...
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... enemies ! DR . RICHARD FLETCHER , Dean of Peterborough ( d . 1596 ) , at the execution of Mary , Queen of Scots . ( Hume , Hist . of Engl . , ch . xlii ) The Dict . of Nat . Biog . ( vol . xix , p . 318 ) gives the words as : " So ...
... enemies ! DR . RICHARD FLETCHER , Dean of Peterborough ( d . 1596 ) , at the execution of Mary , Queen of Scots . ( Hume , Hist . of Engl . , ch . xlii ) The Dict . of Nat . Biog . ( vol . xix , p . 318 ) gives the words as : " So ...
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... enemies , the red- coats and Tories : you must beat them , or my wife sleeps a widow to - night . " We must consider how very little history there is ; I mean real authentic history ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS 73 3333.
... enemies , the red- coats and Tories : you must beat them , or my wife sleeps a widow to - night . " We must consider how very little history there is ; I mean real authentic history ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SAYINGS 73 3333.
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... enemies . Cf. " Whatever is , is right . " " Immortels " applied to the members ( 40 in number ) . Allez - vous - en , vous avez chacun gagné votre teston . ( Go away , you have , each of you earned your teston . * ) ( Claude Le ...
... enemies . Cf. " Whatever is , is right . " " Immortels " applied to the members ( 40 in number ) . Allez - vous - en , vous avez chacun gagné votre teston . ( Go away , you have , each of you earned your teston . * ) ( Claude Le ...
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... enemy . ) Attributed to the D'ASSAS ( 1738-60 ) by Voltaire ( Siècle de Louis XV , ch . 33 ) but said by Grimm ( Mémoires inédits , vol . 1 , p . 188 ) to have been uttered by sergeant DUBOIS , belonging to his company , in the night of ...
... enemy . ) Attributed to the D'ASSAS ( 1738-60 ) by Voltaire ( Siècle de Louis XV , ch . 33 ) but said by Grimm ( Mémoires inédits , vol . 1 , p . 188 ) to have been uttered by sergeant DUBOIS , belonging to his company , in the night 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