Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Source: My Eighty Years (1931), p. 274
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
“She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
On his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, Chapter 1 (Childhood).
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
Bonar Law (1858–1923) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in the Albert Hall (26 January, 1912).
Max Müller (1823–1900) German-born philologist and orientalist
Max Muller. (Preface to the text of the Rigveda, Vol.4, p.xiii). Quoted in https://talageri.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-recorded-history-of-indo-european_27.html
William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) British politician
"The War Speeches of William Pitt", Oxford University Press, 1915, p. 351
Speech at the Guildhall, City of London, 9 November 1805. This was Pitt's last speech in public.
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
On the passing of the revolutionary Grand Remonstrance of November 1641 listing Parliament's grievances against King Charles I, as quoted in A History of the Rebellion (first published 1702 – 1704) by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609 - 1674)