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Page 125
... faire aux rois la colère celeste . ( Fr. ) Rac . Phèdre , 4 , 6 . Detested flatterers ! the most fatal gift Heav'n in its wrath can send to wretched kings ! -Ed . ( Phèdre's dying words . ) 1101. Det ille veniam facile , cui venia est ...
... faire aux rois la colère celeste . ( Fr. ) Rac . Phèdre , 4 , 6 . Detested flatterers ! the most fatal gift Heav'n in its wrath can send to wretched kings ! -Ed . ( Phèdre's dying words . ) 1101. Det ille veniam facile , cui venia est ...
Page 168
... faire un plus grand crime contre les intérêts publics qu'en se rendant indulgent envers ceux qui les violent . ( Fr. ) Richelieu , Testament Pol . - To act with rigour towards those individuals who glory in despising the laws , is to ...
... faire un plus grand crime contre les intérêts publics qu'en se rendant indulgent envers ceux qui les violent . ( Fr. ) Richelieu , Testament Pol . - To act with rigour towards those individuals who glory in despising the laws , is to ...
Page 173
... faire . ( Fr . ) - The best books are those which each reader thinks he could have written himself . 1561. Ex officio . ( L . ) — By virtue of his office . Officially . 1562. Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor . ( L. ) Virg . A ...
... faire . ( Fr . ) - The best books are those which each reader thinks he could have written himself . 1561. Ex officio . ( L . ) — By virtue of his office . Officially . 1562. Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor . ( L. ) Virg . A ...
Page 179
... Faire le diable à quatre . ( Fr . ) - To play the very deuce . To tear , fret , rant , rage . Il fait le diable à quatre , he tears , fumes at a devil of a rate . 1620. Faire mon devoir . ( Fr . ) - To do my duty . Motto of the Earl of ...
... Faire le diable à quatre . ( Fr . ) - To play the very deuce . To tear , fret , rant , rage . Il fait le diable à quatre , he tears , fumes at a devil of a rate . 1620. Faire mon devoir . ( Fr . ) - To do my duty . Motto of the Earl of ...
Page 226
... faire que les autres s'ajustent à nous . ( Fr. ) La Bruy . Car . vol . i . p . 91. — It is often more easy and more convenient to suit ourselves to others , than to make others adapt their opinions to our own . 2056. Il fait un vent à ...
... faire que les autres s'ajustent à nous . ( Fr. ) La Bruy . Car . vol . i . p . 91. — It is often more easy and more convenient to suit ourselves to others , than to make others adapt their opinions to our own . 2056. Il fait un vent à ...
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