 | sir John Barrow (bart.) - 1883 - 454 páginas
...so much of her glory and prosperity, with fixed attention for some time, and at last is said to have exclaimed, " Thou great man ! I would have given thee...dominions, to learn of thee how to govern the other." He also showed himself at the Sorbonne, where the doctors had the bad taste to thrust into his hands... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1908 - 446 páginas
...so much of her glory and prosperity, with fixed attention for some time, and at last is said to have exclaimed, " Thou great man! I would have given thee...dominions, to learn of thee how to govern the other." He also showed himself at the Sorbonne, where the doctors had the bad taste to thrust into his hands... | |
 | John Henry Haaren, Addison B. Poland - 1909 - 364 páginas
...Czar, Peter the Great, visited Paris. As he stood before the splendid marble monument of Richelieu, he exclaimed, "Thou great man! I would have given thee one half of my dominions to learn from thee how to govern the other half." GALILEO 1564-1642 Sometime in the year 1583, repairs were... | |
 | Alice Birkhead - 1915 - 220 páginas
...his own shortcomings as a statesman'. Half bitterly he exclaimed, " Great man ! I would have given half of my dominions to learn of thee how to govern the other half." At Trianon the Tsar became a boor again, enjoying the trick of turning a jet of water from the fountains... | |
 | Danielle Steel - 2001 - 658 páginas
...pieces of sculpture in Europe, he exclaimed, "Thou great man 1 I would have given thee one half ot my dominions to learn of thee how to govern the other...All the trades and manufactures of the capital he exam ined with the greatest care, and took back with him to St. Petersburg a large number of the most... | |
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Thou great man ! I would have given thee one half of my dominions, to learn of thee how to govern the other." He also showed himself at the Sorbonne, where the doctors had the bad taste to thrust into his hands a memorial, in which they expressed their... 
