The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and ModernBoyer, Abel
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The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English;: or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern
Boyer, Abel
Anecdotes; Wit and humor
The same Prince being Wounded in a Fight with an Arrow, said to
those who were about him: _Every one calls me Immortal, and Son of_
Jupiter: _What do you think on’t? does not this wound give the lie
to all those Flatterers? This Blood that runs is of the same colour
with that of my Subjects, and puts me in mind that I am but a Man._
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Le même Prince, ayant receu un coup de Flêche dans un Combat, dit
à ceux qui l’environnoient: _Chacun m’appelle immortel, & Fils de_
Jupiter: _qu’en dites vous? cette blessure ne donne t-elle pas le
dementi à tous ces Flatteurs là? ce sang qui coule n’est point
d’une autre couleur que celui de mes sujets & il m’avertit que je
ne suis qu’un Homme._
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The Emperour _Augustus_ feeling approaching Death, told those
Friends who were about his Bed: _Well, my Friends, what think you,
have I not during my Life pretty well acted my Part upon the Stage
of the World?_ And as every one confest that no Man’s life could
ever be more Illustrious, and better govern’d than his, he added
these Words, which were usually spoke to the People after the Play:
_Farewel then, my Friends, and clap Hands._
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L’Empereur _Auguste_, sentant que sa Mort approchoit, dit
s’addressant à ses Amis qui ètoient autour de son Lit: _Hé bien,
mes Amis, que vous en semble, n’ai-je pas pendant ma vie, assez
bien joüé mon Personnage sur le Theatre du Monde?_ Et comme chacun
avoüa que jamais vie ne pouvoit être plus illustre, & mieux
conduite que la sienne, il ajouta ce Mot, qu’on avoit coûtume de
dire au Peuple aprés la Comedie: _Adieu donc, mes Amis, frappez des
Mains_.
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Somebody came to _Socrates_ the Philosopher, to tell him the
_Athenians_ had sentenced him to Death: _Nature_, said he, _has
long since condemn’d them to suffer the same punishment as well as
I_.
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Quelqu’un vint dire au Philosophe _Socrate_, que les _Atheniens_
l’avoient condamné à la Mort: _Il y a long tems_, dit-il, _que la
Nature les a condamnez à la même peine aussi bien que moy_.
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When King _Philip_ came with his Army into the _Peloponesus_, one
told _Damidas_, that in case the _Lacedemonians_ did not make
their Peace with him, they must suffer a great deal: _You Coward_,
answered he, _What can those Men suffer who are not afraid of
Death?_
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Lorsque le Roy _Philippe_ entra avec son Armée dans les Terres du
_Peloponese_, quelqu’un dit à _Damidas_, que si les _Lacedemoniens_
ne rentroient en grace avec lui, ils auroient beaucoup à souffrir:
_Hé Poltron_, répondit-il, _que peuvent souffrir ceux qui ne
craignent point la Mort?_
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One told _Anacharsis_ that the Ship he was in was but four Inches
thick: _Then_, said he, _we are within four Inches of Death_.
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On dit à _Anacharsis_, que le Navire qui le portoit n’avoit que
quatre doigts d’épaisseur: _Nous ne sommes donc_, dit-il, _éloignez
de la Mort que de quatre doigts_.
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