Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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Page 99
... Morts Anciens et Modernes , I ( Scarron ) . " One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous , and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again . " - Thos . Paine , Age of Reason , pt . 2. ad fin . ( note ) " Du fanatisme à la ...
... Morts Anciens et Modernes , I ( Scarron ) . " One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous , and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again . " - Thos . Paine , Age of Reason , pt . 2. ad fin . ( note ) " Du fanatisme à la ...
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... mort , et faites votre devoir . ( Gonzalvo threatens to take what remains of my life if you do not sur- render at once . My friend , consider me as already dead : and do your duty . ) Instructions given by JACQUES DE LA PALICE ...
... mort , et faites votre devoir . ( Gonzalvo threatens to take what remains of my life if you do not sur- render at once . My friend , consider me as already dead : and do your duty . ) Instructions given by JACQUES DE LA PALICE ...
Page 105
... Mort aux tyrans , paix aux chaumines . Quoted by J. Berchoux in his Epitre politique et galante à Ephrosine de Ñ . . ... " Guerre aux châteaux , paix aux chau- mières , " Attendu que dans ces dernières , " Le pillage serait sans prix ...
... Mort aux tyrans , paix aux chaumines . Quoted by J. Berchoux in his Epitre politique et galante à Ephrosine de Ñ . . ... " Guerre aux châteaux , paix aux chau- mières , " Attendu que dans ces dernières , " Le pillage serait sans prix ...
Page 106
... mort aujourd'hui un homme qui faisait honneur à l'homme . ( There has died to - day a man who did honour to mankind . ) GENERAL MONTECUCULLI ( 1608- 81 ) of MARSHAL TURENNE . The former was killed by a cannon - ball at Salsbach ( July ...
... mort aujourd'hui un homme qui faisait honneur à l'homme . ( There has died to - day a man who did honour to mankind . ) GENERAL MONTECUCULLI ( 1608- 81 ) of MARSHAL TURENNE . The former was killed by a cannon - ball at Salsbach ( July ...
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... mort que " vivant . " ( My God , how tall he is ! He seems taller dead than alive . ) — Journal de L'Estoile . See Morte la bête , mort le venin . celebrated Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié . ( Nothing is new but what is ...
... mort que " vivant . " ( My God , how tall he is ! He seems taller dead than alive . ) — Journal de L'Estoile . See Morte la bête , mort le venin . celebrated Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié . ( Nothing is new but what is ...
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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