Extra Credit Questions
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09-29-2020, 05:05 AM
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
Ha! You must be up with the sparrows, Bill. Yes. You got it.
( https://www.monticello.org/site/research...-quotation ) :- "Although the saying, "Every man has two countries – his own and France," has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson many times, this exact wording has never been found in his writings. It has been suggested that the saying may be a paraphrase of this passage from Jefferson's Autobiography: [S]o ask the traveled inhabitant of any nation, In what country on earth would you rather live?—certainly in my own. where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest & sweetest affections and recollections of my life.—Which would be your second choice?—France. The specific quotation, "Every man has two countries – his own and France," however, has been traced back to Henri de Bornier's play, La Fille de Roland (1875), in which Charlemagne utters the line, "Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France." “The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns |
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