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Borrow, George
1803–81
1803–81
1
Sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things: there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
Sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things: there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
Lavengro
(1851) ch. 25
Bosquet, Pierre
1810–61
1810–61
1
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre.It is magnificent, but it is not war.
on the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 25 October 1854
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre.It is magnificent, but it is not war.
on the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 25 October 1854
Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Reason Why
(1953) ch. 12
Bossidy, John Collins
1860–1928
1860–1928
1
And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God.
And this is good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God.
verse spoken at Holy Cross College alumni dinner in Boston, Massachusetts, 1910, in
Springfield Sunday Republican
14 December 1924
Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne
1627–1704
1627–1704
1
L'Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre, que le rempart de ses mers rendait inaccessible aux Romains, la foi du Sauveur y est abordée.England, ah, faithless England, which the protection afforded by its seas rendered inaccessible to the Romans, the faith of the Saviour spread even there.
L'Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre, que le rempart de ses mers rendait inaccessible aux Romains, la foi du Sauveur y est abordée.England, ah, faithless England, which the protection afforded by its seas rendered inaccessible to the Romans, the faith of the Saviour spread even there.
first sermon on the feast of the Circumcision, in
Oeuvres de Bossuet
(1816) vol. 11.
Boswell, James
1740–95
1740–95
1
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
A page of my Journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
johnson
: Well, we had a good talk.
boswell
: Yes, Sir; you tossed and gored several persons.
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
(ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 14 August 1773
A page of my Journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
(ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 13 September 1773
johnson
: Well, we had a good talk.
boswell
: Yes, Sir; you tossed and gored several persons.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
(1791) Summer 1768
Bottomley, Horatio
1860–1933
1860–1933
1
reply to a prison visitor who asked if he were sewing:
No, reaping.
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
reply to a prison visitor who asked if he were sewing:
No, reaping.
S. T. Felstead
Horatio Bottomley
(1936) ch. 16
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
speech at the Oxford Union, 2 December 1920
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