Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... honour to me , I will only deliver it up to God ! ) Ch . Deulin , l'Esprit public , June 24 , 1862 . A grenadier named Antoine Deleau , at the Prefecture du Nord , June 30 , 1862 , claimed to have heard these words uttered by PRINCE ...
... honour to me , I will only deliver it up to God ! ) Ch . Deulin , l'Esprit public , June 24 , 1862 . A grenadier named Antoine Deleau , at the Prefecture du Nord , June 30 , 1862 , claimed to have heard these words uttered by PRINCE ...
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... honour . ) Reply made by JOAN OF ARC ( 1412-31 ) , when asked by her captors why her standard was carried at the coronation of Charles VII at Reims , ( July 17 , 1429 ) , rather than those of the other captains . Il est bon que de chez ...
... honour . ) Reply made by JOAN OF ARC ( 1412-31 ) , when asked by her captors why her standard was carried at the coronation of Charles VII at Reims , ( July 17 , 1429 ) , rather than those of the other captains . Il est bon que de chez ...
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... honour , save in his own country , and in his own house . St. Matthew , xiii , 57 . Heinrich Heine ( 1800-56 ) is re- ported to have remarked , when the above saying was quoted to him , That is not because the hero is not a hero , but ...
... honour , save in his own country , and in his own house . St. Matthew , xiii , 57 . Heinrich Heine ( 1800-56 ) is re- ported to have remarked , when the above saying was quoted to him , That is not because the hero is not a hero , but ...
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... honour and mother - country are pro- nounced here . ) GENERAL ( Maximilien Sebast- ien , comte ) Foy ( 1775-1825 ) —in the French Chamber , Dec. 30 , 1820 . Il y a plus loin de rien à un que d'un à mille . ( It is farther from nothing ...
... honour and mother - country are pro- nounced here . ) GENERAL ( Maximilien Sebast- ien , comte ) Foy ( 1775-1825 ) —in the French Chamber , Dec. 30 , 1820 . Il y a plus loin de rien à un que d'un à mille . ( It is farther from nothing ...
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... honour ask for money on the eve of a battle . ) - Pierre Mathieu . Answer made by HENRI IV ( 1553-1610 ) to the German Colonel TICH DE SCHOMBERG before the battle of Ivry , on being asked for the troops ' pay . Just before the ...
... honour ask for money on the eve of a battle . ) - Pierre Mathieu . Answer made by HENRI IV ( 1553-1610 ) to the German Colonel TICH DE SCHOMBERG before the battle of Ivry , on being asked for the troops ' pay . Just before the ...
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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