Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... wish Vaughan to preach my funeral sermon , because he has known me longest . ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY , Dean of Westminster ( 1815-81 ) -- Last recorded words . I wish you to understand the true principles of govern- ment ; I wish them ...
... wish Vaughan to preach my funeral sermon , because he has known me longest . ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY , Dean of Westminster ( 1815-81 ) -- Last recorded words . I wish you to understand the true principles of govern- ment ; I wish them ...
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... wish to witness a great victory . " Madam , there is no- thing so dreadful as a great victory- excepting a great defeat . Emerson continues ; " But this speech is also D'Argenson's , and is reported by Grimm . " 666 Nothing has a better ...
... wish to witness a great victory . " Madam , there is no- thing so dreadful as a great victory- excepting a great defeat . Emerson continues ; " But this speech is also D'Argenson's , and is reported by Grimm . " 666 Nothing has a better ...
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... wish it to be known that my last thoughts were given to my wife , my child , and my sister . " Now it is come . JOHN KNOX ( 1505-72 ) . Last words . Another version is : " Live in Christ , live in Christ ; and the flesh need not fear ...
... wish it to be known that my last thoughts were given to my wife , my child , and my sister . " Now it is come . JOHN KNOX ( 1505-72 ) . Last words . Another version is : " Live in Christ , live in Christ ; and the flesh need not fear ...
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... wish to see them returned to their primitive deserts . CHARLES TOWNSHEND ( 1725- 67 ) -in a speech in the House of Commons , 17th Dec. 1865 , in sup- port of the Stamp Act . So perish all Queen Elizabeth's enemies ! DR . RICHARD ...
... wish to see them returned to their primitive deserts . CHARLES TOWNSHEND ( 1725- 67 ) -in a speech in the House of Commons , 17th Dec. 1865 , in sup- port of the Stamp Act . So perish all Queen Elizabeth's enemies ! DR . RICHARD ...
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... wish to be eaten ? ) Concluding words of lines under a caricature directed against CALONNE ( 1734-1802 ) circulated in the reign of Louis XVI ( 1754-93 ) . Cf. Grimm's Correspondance , April , 1787 . of A qui donc parle - t - il ? ( To ...
... wish to be eaten ? ) Concluding words of lines under a caricature directed against CALONNE ( 1734-1802 ) circulated in the reign of Louis XVI ( 1754-93 ) . Cf. Grimm's Correspondance , April , 1787 . of A qui donc parle - t - il ? ( To ...
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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