book ii
. chap. iv._
[811-3] Attributed to Mademoiselle Bertin, milliner to Marie Antoinette.
"There is nothing new except that which has become antiquated,"--motto of the "Revue Rétrospective."
[811-4] This saying is attributed to Talleyrand. In a letter of the Chevalier de Panat to Mallet du Pan, January, 1796, it occurs almost literally,--"No one is right; no one could forget anything, nor learn anything."
[811-5] Words uttered by Comte de Salvandy (1796-1856) at a fete given by the Duke of Orleans to the King of Naples, 1830.
[811-6] Attributed to Luther, but more probably a saying of J. H. Voss (1751-1826), according to Redlich, "Die poetischen Beiträge zum Waudsbecker Bothen," Hamburg, 1871, p. 67.--KING: _Classical and Foreign Quotations_ (1887).
[811-7] See Gibbon, page 430.
Napoleon said, "Providence is always on the side of the last reserve."
[811-8] Anonymous translation from "Tait's Magazine," July, 1850. The poem is of an age earlier than that of Mahomet.
THE BIBLE.
OLD TESTAMENT.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
_Genesis i. 3._
It is not good that the man should be alone.
_Genesis ii. 18._
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
_Genesis ii. 23._
They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons.
_Genesis iii. 7._
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
_Genesis iii. 19._
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
_Genesis iii. 19._
The mother of all living.
_Genesis iii. 20._
Am I my brother's keeper?
_Genesis iv. 9._
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
_Genesis iv. 13._
There were giants in the earth in those days.
_Genesis vi. 4._
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
_Genesis vii. 12._
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
_Genesis viii. 9._
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
_Genesis ix. 6._
Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me.
_Genesis xiii. 8._
In a good old age.
_Genesis xv. 15._
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
_Genesis xvi. 12._
Old and well stricken in age.
_Genesis xviii. 11._
His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
_Genesis xix. 26._
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
_Genesis xxvii. 22._
They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours.
_Genesis xxxvii. 23._
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
_Genesis xlii. 38._
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
_Genesis xlix. 4._
I have been a stranger in a strange land.
_Exodus ii. 22._
A land flowing with milk and honey.
_Exodus iii. 8; Jeremiah xxxii. 22._
Darkness which may be felt.
_Exodus x. 21._
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.
_Exodus xiii. 21._
When we sat by the fleshpots.
_Exodus xvi. 3._
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
_Leviticus xix. 18._
The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
_Numbers xxii. 28._
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
_Numbers xxiii. 10._
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
_Numbers xxiv. 5._
Man doth not live by bread only.
_Deuteronomy viii. 3._
The wife of thy bosom.
_Deuteronomy xiii. 6._
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
_Deuteronomy xix. 21._
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
_Deuteronomy xxviii. 5._
The secret things belong unto the Lord.
_Deuteronomy xxix. 29._
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
_Deuteronomy xxxii. 10._
Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.
_Deuteronomy xxxii. 15._
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
_Deuteronomy xxxiii. 25._
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
_Deuteronomy xxxiv. 7._
I am going the way of all the earth.
_Joshua xxiii. 14._
I arose a mother in Israel.
_Judges v. 7._
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
_Judges v. 20._
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
_Judges v. 25._
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
_Judges v. 27._
Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
_Judges viii. 2._
He smote them hip and thigh.
_Judges xv. 8._
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
_Judges xvi. 9._
From Dan even to Beer-sheba.
_Judges xx. 1._
The people arose as one man.
_Judges xx. 8._
Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
_Ruth i. 16._
Quit yourselves like men.
_1 Samuel iv. 9._
Is Saul also among the prophets?
_1 Samuel x. 11._
A man after his own heart.
_1 Samuel xiii. 14._
David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam.
_1 Samuel xxii. 1._
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon.
_2 Samuel i. 20._
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
_2 Samuel i. 23._
How are the mighty fallen!
_2 Samuel i. 25._
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
_2 Samuel i. 26._
Abner . . . smote him under the fifth rib.
_2 Samuel ii. 23._
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.
_2 Samuel x. 5._
Thou art the man.
_2 Samuel xii. 7._
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
_2 Samuel xiv. 14._
They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
_2 Samuel xx. 18._
The sweet psalmist of Israel.
_2 Samuel xxiii. 1._
So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.[815-1]
_1 Kings vi. 7._
A proverb and a byword.
_1 Kings ix. 7._
I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
_1 Kings xvii. 9._
An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
_1 Kings xvii. 12._
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
_1 Kings xvii. 16._
How long halt ye between two opinions?
_1 Kings xviii. 21._
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
_1 Kings xviii. 44._
A still, small voice.
_1 Kings xix. 12._
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
_1 Kings xx. 11._
Death in the pot.
_2 Kings iv. 40._
Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
_2 Kings viii. 13._
Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: for he driveth furiously.
_2 Kings ix. 20._
One that feared God and eschewed evil.
_Job i. 1._
Satan came also.
_Job i. 6._
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
_Job i. 21._
All that a man hath will he give for his life.
_Job ii. 4._
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
_Job iii. 17._
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
_Job iv. 13; xxxiii. 15._
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
_Job v. 7._
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
_Job v. 13._
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
_Job v. 26._
How forcible are right words!
_Job vi. 25._
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
_Job vii. 6._
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.[816-1]
_Job vii. 10_; cf. _xvi. 22._
I would not live alway.
_Job vii. 16._
The land of darkness and the shadow of death.
_Job x. 21._
Clearer than the noonday.
_Job xi. 17._
Wisdom shall die with you.
_Job xii. 2._
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
_Job xii. 8._
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
_Job xvi. 1._
Miserable comforters are ye all.
_Job xvi. 2._
The king of terrors.
_Job xviii. 14._
I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
_Job xix. 20._
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
_Job xix. 23._
Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
_Job xix. 28._
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
_Job xx. 12._
The land of the living.
_Job xxviii. 13._
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
_Job xxviii. 18._
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
_Job xxix. 11._
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
_Job xxix. 13._
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
_Job xxix. 15._
The house appointed for all living.
_Job xxx. 23._
My desire is . . . that mine adversary had written a book.
_Job xxxi. 35._
Great men are not always wise.
_Job xxxii. 9._
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
_Job xxxv. 16._
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
_Job xxxvii. 22._
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
_Job xxxviii. 2._
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
_Job xxxviii. 7._
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
_Job xxxviii. 11._
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
_Job xxxviii. 31._
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
_Job xxxviii. 32._
He smelleth the battle afar off.
_Job xxxix. 25._
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
_Job xli. 1._
Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
_Job xli. 24._
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
_Job xli. 31._
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee.
_Job xlii. 5._
His leaf also shall not wither.
_Psalm i. 3._
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
_Psalm iv. 6._
Out of the mouth of babes[818-1] and sucklings.
_Psalm viii. 2._
Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.[818-2]
_Psalm viii. 5._
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
_Psalm xiv. 1; liii. 1._
He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
_Psalm xv. 4._
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;[818-3] yea, I have a goodly heritage.
_Psalm xvi. 6._
Keep me as the apple of the eye,[818-4] hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
_Psalm xvii. 8._
The sorrows of death compassed me.
_Psalm xviii. 4._
He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.[818-5]
_Psalm xviii. 10._
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
_Psalm xix. 1._
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge.[819-1]
_Psalm xix. 2._
And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
_Psalm xix. 6._
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
_Psalm xix. 10._
I may tell all my bones.
_Psalm xxii. 17._
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.[819-2]
_Psalm xxiii. 2._
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.[819-3]
_Psalm xxiii. 4._
My cup runneth over.[819-4]
_Psalm xxiii. 5._
From the strife of tongues.
_Psalm xxxi. 20._
He fashioneth their hearts alike.[819-5]
_Psalm xxxiii. 15._
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
_Psalm xxxiv. 13._
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen[819-6] the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
_Psalm xxxvii. 25._
Spreading[819-7] himself like a green bay-tree.
_Psalm xxxvii. 35._
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
_Psalm xxxvii. 37._
While I was musing the fire burned.[819-8]
_Psalm xxxix. 3._
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.[820-1]
_Psalm xxxix. 4._
Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.[820-2]
_Psalm xxxix. 5._
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not[820-3] who shall gather them.
_Psalm xxxix. 6._
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
_Psalm xli. 1._
As the hart panteth after the water-brooks.[820-4]
_Psalm xlii. 1._
Deep calleth unto deep.[820-5]
_Psalm xlii. 7._
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
_Psalm xlv. 1._
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.[820-6]
_Psalm xlvi. 1._
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion,[820-7] . . . the city of the great King.
_Psalm xlviii. 2._
Man being in honour abideth not; he is like the beasts that perish.[820-8]
_Psalm xlix. 12, 20._
The cattle upon a thousand hills.
_Psalm l. 10._
Oh that I had wings like a dove!
_Psalm lv. 6._
We took sweet counsel together.
_Psalm lv. 14._
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.[820-9]
_Psalm lv. 15._
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.[821-1]
_Psalm lv. 21._
My heart is fixed.
_Psalm lvii. 7._
They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.[821-2]
_Psalm lviii. 4, 5._
Vain is the help of man.
_Psalm lx. 11; cviii. 12._
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.[821-3]
_Psalm lxii. 9._
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.[821-4]
_Psalm lxxii. 6._
His enemies shall lick the dust.
_Psalm lxxii. 9._
As a dream when one awaketh.
_Psalm lxxiii. 20._
Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from[821-5] the south.
_Psalm lxxv. 6._
He putteth down one and setteth up another.
_Psalm lxxv. 7._
They go from strength to strength.
_Psalm lxxxiv. 7._
A day[821-6] in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.[821-7]
_Psalm lxxxiv. 10._
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
_Psalm lxxxv. 10._
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past,[822-1] and as a watch in the night.
_Psalm xc. 4._
We spend our years as a tale that is told.[822-2]
_Psalm xc. 9._
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.[822-3]
_Psalm xc. 10._
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
_Psalm xc. 12._
Establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.[822-4]
_Psalm xc. 17._
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.[822-5]
_Psalm xci. 2._
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for . . . the destruction that wasteth at noonday.[822-6]
_Psalm xci. 6._
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.[822-7]
_Psalm xcii. 12._
The noise of many waters.
_Psalm xciii. 4._
The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice.[822-8]
_Psalm xcvii. 1._
As for man his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he flourisheth.[823-1]
_Psalm ciii. 15._
The wind passeth over it, and it is gone;[823-2] and the place thereof shall know it no more.
_Psalm ciii. 16._
Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.
_Psalm civ. 15._
Man goeth forth unto his work[823-3] and to his labour until the evening.
_Psalm civ. 23._
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters.[823-4]
_Psalm cvii. 23._
At their wits' end.
_Psalm cvii. 27._
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.[823-5]
_Psalm cx. 3._
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
_Psalm cxvi. 11._
Precious[823-6] in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
_Psalm cxvi. 15._
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.[823-7]
_Psalm cxviii. 22._
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditations.[823-8]
_Psalm cxix. 99._
A lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.[823-9]
_Psalm cxix. 105._
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.[824-1]
_Psalm cxxi. 6._
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity[824-2] within thy palaces.
_Psalm cxxii. 7._
He giveth his beloved sleep.
_Psalm cxxvii. 2._
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
_Psalm cxxvii. 5._
Thy children like olive plants[824-3] round about thy table.
_Psalm cxxviii. 3._
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.[824-4]
_Psalm cxxxii. 4; Proverbs vi. 4._
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren[824-5] to dwell together in unity.
_Psalm cxxxiii. 1._
We hanged our harps upon the willows.[824-6]
_Psalm cxxxvii. 2._
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
_Psalm cxxxvii. 5._
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell[824-7] in the uttermost parts of the sea.
_Psalm cxxxix. 9._
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[824-8]
_Psalm cxxxix. 14._
Put not your trust in princes.
_Psalm cxlvi. 3._
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
_Proverbs i. 10._
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.
_Proverbs i. 20._
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
_Proverbs iii. 16._
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
_Proverbs iii. 17._
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
_Proverbs iv. 7._
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
_Proverbs iv. 18._
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
_Proverbs vi. 6._
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
_Proverbs vi. 10; xxiv. 33._
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
_Proverbs vi. 11._
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
_Proverbs vi. 27._
As an ox goeth to the slaughter.
_Proverbs vii. 22; Jeremiah xi. 19._
Wisdom is better than rubies.
_Proverbs viii. 11._
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
_Proverbs ix. 17._
He knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
_Proverbs ix. 18._
A wise son maketh a glad father.
_Proverbs x. 1._
The memory of the just is blessed.
_Proverbs x. 7._
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
_Proverbs x. 15._
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
_Proverbs xi. 14; xxiv. 6._
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
_Proverbs xi. 15._
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
_Proverbs xi. 22._
The liberal soul shall be made fat.
_Proverbs xi. 25._
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
_Proverbs xii. 10._
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
_Proverbs xiii. 12._
The way of transgressors is hard.
_Proverbs xiii. 15._
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
_Proverbs xiii. 24._
Fools make a mock at sin.
_Proverbs xiv. 9._
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
_Proverbs xiv. 10._
The prudent man looketh well to his going.
_Proverbs xiv. 15._
The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
_Proverbs xiv. 23._
The righteous hath hope in his death.
_Proverbs xiv. 32._
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
_Proverbs xiv. 34._
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
_Proverbs xv. 1._
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
_Proverbs xv. 13._
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
_Proverbs xv. 15._
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
_Proverbs xv. 17._
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
_Proverbs xv. 23._
A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.
_Proverbs xvi. 9._
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
_Proverbs xvi. 18._
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
_Proverbs xvi. 31._
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
_Proverbs xvi. 32._
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
_Proverbs xvi. 33._
A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it.
_Proverbs xvii. 8._
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
_Proverbs xvii. 9._
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
_Proverbs xvii. 22._
The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
_Proverbs xvii. 24._
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
_Proverbs xvii. 27._
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.
_Proverbs xvii. 28._
A wounded spirit who can bear?
_Proverbs xviii. 14._
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.
_Proverbs xviii. 22._
A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
_Proverbs xviii. 24._
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
_Proverbs xix. 17._
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.
_Proverbs xx. 1._
Every fool will be meddling.
_Proverbs xx. 3._
The hearing ear and the seeing eye.
_Proverbs xx. 12._
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
_Proverbs xx. 14._
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
_Proverbs xxi. 9._
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
_Proverbs xxii. 1._
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
_Proverbs xxii. 6._
The borrower is servant to the lender.
_Proverbs xxii. 7._
Remove not the ancient landmark.
_Proverbs xxii. 28; xxiii. 10._
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
_Proverbs xxii. 29._
Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
_Proverbs xxiii. 2._
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
_Proverbs xxiii. 5._
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
_Proverbs xxiii. 7._
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
_Proverbs xxiii. 21._
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup; . . . at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
_Proverbs xxiii. 31, 32._
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
_Proverbs xxiv. 5._
If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small.
_Proverbs xxiv. 10._
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
_Proverbs xxv. 11._
Heap coals of fire upon his head.
_Proverbs xxv. 22._
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
_Proverbs xxv. 25._
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
_Proverbs xxvi. 2._
Answer a fool according to his folly.
_Proverbs xxvi. 5._
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
_Proverbs xxvi. 12._
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
_Proverbs xxvi. 13._
Wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
_Proverbs xxvi. 16._
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
_Proverbs xxvi. 27._
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
_Proverbs xxvii. 1._
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
_Proverbs xxvii. 5._
Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
_Proverbs xxvii. 6._
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
_Proverbs xxvii. 15._
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
_Proverbs xxvii. 17._
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
_Proverbs xxvii. 22._
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
_Proverbs xxviii. 1._
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
_Proverbs xxviii. 20._
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
_Proverbs xxix. 18._
Give me neither poverty nor riches.
_Proverbs xxx. 8._
The horseleech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.
_Proverbs xxx. 15._
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
_Proverbs xxxi. 26._
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
_Proverbs xxxi. 27._
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
_Proverbs xxxi. 28._
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
_Proverbs xxxi. 29._
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain.
_Proverbs xxxi. 30._
Vanity of vanities, . . . all is vanity.
_Ecclesiastes i. 2; xii. 8._
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.
_Ecclesiastes i. 4._
The eye is not satisfied with seeing.
_Ecclesiastes i. 8._
There is no new thing under the sun.
_Ecclesiastes i. 9._
Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.[830-1]
_Ecclesiastes i. 10._
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
_Ecclesiastes i. 14._
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
_Ecclesiastes i. 18._
One event happeneth to them all.
_Ecclesiastes ii. 14._
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
_Ecclesiastes iii. 1._
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
_Ecclesiastes iv. 12._
Let thy words be few.
_Ecclesiastes v. 2._
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
_Ecclesiastes v. 5._
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.
_Ecclesiastes v. 12._
A good name is better than precious ointment.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 1._
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 2._
As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 6._
In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 14._
Be not righteous overmuch.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 16._
One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 28._
God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
_Ecclesiastes vii. 29._
There is no discharge in that war.
_Ecclesiastes viii. 8._
To eat, and to drink, and to be merry.
_Ecclesiastes viii. 15; Luke xii. 19._
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
_Ecclesiastes ix. 4._
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
_Ecclesiastes ix. 10._
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
_Ecclesiastes ix. 11._
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
_Ecclesiastes ix. 20._
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
_Ecclesiastes xi. 1._
In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
_Ecclesiastes xi. 3._
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
_Ecclesiastes xi. 4._
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.
_Ecclesiastes xi. 6._
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
_Ecclesiastes xi. 7._
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth.
_Ecclesiastes xi. 9._
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 1._
The grinders cease because they are few.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 3._
The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 5._
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 6._
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 7._
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 11._
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 12._
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
_Ecclesiastes xii. 13._
For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
_The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12._
The little foxes, that spoil the vines.
_The Song of Solomon ii. 15._
Terrible as an army with banners.
_The Song of Solomon vi. 4, 10._
Like the best wine, . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
_The Song of Solomon vii. 9._
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
_The Song of Solomon viii. 6._
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
_The Song of Solomon viii. 7._
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib.
_Isaiah i. 3._
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
_Isaiah i. 5._
As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.
_Isaiah i. 8._
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
_Isaiah ii. 4; Micah iv. 3._
In that day a man shall cast his idols . . . to the moles and to the bats.
_Isaiah ii. 20._
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.
_Isaiah ii. 22._
The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
_Isaiah iii. 1._
Grind the faces of the poor.
_Isaiah iii. 15._
Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.
_Isaiah iii. 16._
In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.
_Isaiah iv. 1._
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.
_Isaiah v. 20._
I am a man of unclean lips.
_Isaiah vi. 5._
The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt.
_Isaiah vii. 18._
Wizards that peep and that mutter.
_Isaiah viii. 19._
To the law and to the testimony.
_Isaiah viii. 20._
The ancient and honorable.
_Isaiah ix. 15._
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
_Isaiah xi. 2._
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
_Isaiah xi. 6._
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming.
_Isaiah xiv. 9._
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
_Isaiah xiv. 12._
The burden of the desert of the sea.
_Isaiah xxi. 1._
Babylon is fallen, is fallen.
_Isaiah xxi. 9._
Watchman, what of the night?
_Isaiah xxi. 11._
Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.
_Isaiah xxii. 13._
Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.
_Isaiah xxii. 23._
Whose merchants are princes.
_Isaiah xxiii. 8._
A feast of fat things.
_Isaiah xxv. 6._
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
_Isaiah xxviii. 10._
We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.
_Isaiah xxviii. 15._
Their strength is to sit still.
_Isaiah xxx. 7._
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.
_Isaiah xxx. 8._
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
_Isaiah xxxv. 1._
Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.
_Isaiah xxxvi. 6._
Set thine house in order.
_Isaiah xxxviii. 1._
All flesh is grass.
_Isaiah xl. 6._
The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
_Isaiah xl. 15._
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
_Isaiah xlii. 3._
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
_Isaiah xlviii. 22._
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
_Isaiah liii. 7._
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
_Isaiah lv. 7._
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
_Isaiah lx. 22._
Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
_Isaiah lxi. 3._
I have trodden the wine-press alone.
_Isaiah lxiii. 3._
We all do fade as a leaf.
_Isaiah lxiv. 6._
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
_Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11._
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.[835-1]
_Jeremiah vi. 16._
Amend your ways and your doings.
_Jeremiah vii. 3; xxvi. 13._
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
_Jeremiah viii. 22._
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
_Jeremiah ix. 2._
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
_Jeremiah xiii. 23._
A man of strife and a man of contention.
_Jeremiah xv. 10._
Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.
_Jeremiah xvii. 1._
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
_Jeremiah xxii. 19._
As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
_Ezekiel x. 10._
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
_Ezekiel xviii. 2_; (_Jeremiah xxxi. 29._)
Stood at the parting of the way.
_Ezekiel xxi. 21._
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
_Daniel v. 27._
According to the law of the Medes and Persians.
_Daniel vi. 12._
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
_Daniel xii. 4._
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
_Hosea viii. 7._
I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes.
_Hosea viii. 10._
Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
_Joel ii. 28._
Multitudes in the valley of decision.
_Joel iii. 14._
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.
_Micah iv. 4._
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
_Habakkuk ii. 2._
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
_Zechariah i. 5._
For who hath despised the day of small things?
_Zechariah iv. 10._
Prisoners of hope.
_Zechariah ix. 12._
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
_Zechariah xiii. 6._
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
_Malachi iv. 2._
Great is truth, and mighty above all things.[836-1]
_1 Esdras iv. 41._
Unto you is paradise opened.
_2 Esdras viii. 52._
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
_2 Esdras xiv. 25._
So they [Azarias and Tobias] went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them.
_Tobit v. 16._
So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
_Tobit xi. 4._
Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.
_Wisdom of Solomon ii. 5._
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.
_Wisdom of Solomon ii. 8._
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
_Wisdom of Solomon iv. 8._
When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.[837-1]
_Wisdom of Solomon vii. 3._
Observe the opportunity.
_Ecclesiasticus iv. 20._
Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small.
_Ecclesiasticus v. 15._
Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.
_Ecclesiasticus vii. 36._
Miss not the discourse of the elders.
_Ecclesiasticus viii. 9._
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
_Ecclesiasticus ix. 10._
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
_Ecclesiasticus xiii. 1._
He will laugh thee to scorn.
_Ecclesiasticus xiii. 7._
Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
_Ecclesiasticus xxx. 22._
Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.
_Ecclesiasticus xxxiii. 17._
For of the most High cometh healing.
_Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 2._
Whose talk is of bullocks.
_Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25._
These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.
_Ecclesiasticus xliv. 7._
There be of them that have left a name behind them.
_Ecclesiasticus xliv. 8._
Nicanor lay dead in his harness.
_2 Maccabees xv. 28._
If I have done well, and as is fitting, . . . it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
_2 Maccabees xv. 38._
FOOTNOTES:
[815-1] See Cowper, page 421.
[816-1] The place thereof shall know it no more.--_Psalm ciii. 16._
Usually quoted, "The place that has known him shall know him no more."
[818-1] Of very babes.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[818-2] Thou madest him lower than.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[818-3] The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[818-4] Apple of an eye.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[818-5] He rode upon the cherubim, and did fly; he came flying upon the wings of the wind.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-1] One day telleth another; and one night certifieth another.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-2] He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-3] Thy rod and thy staff comfort me.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-4] My cup shall be full.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-5] He fashioneth all the hearts of them.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-6] And yet saw I never . . . begging their bread.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-7] Flourishing.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[819-8] While I was thus musing the fire kindled.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-1] Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days, that I may be certified how long I have to live.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-2] Every man living is altogether vanity.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-3] And cannot tell.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-4] As the hart desireth the water-brooks.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-5] One deep calleth another.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-6] God is our hope and strength.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-7] The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-8] Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[820-9] But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-1] The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-2] Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-3] As for the children of men, they are but vanity: the children of men are deceitful upon the weights; they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-4] He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-5] Nor yet.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-6] One day in thy courts.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[821-7] Ungodliness.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-1] Seeing that is past.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-2] We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-3] The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-4] Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; oh prosper thou our handiwork.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-5] I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my stronghold; my God, in him will I trust.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-6] For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-7] Like a palm-tree, and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[822-8] The Lord is king; the earth may be glad thereof.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-1] The days of man are but as grass; for he flourisheth as a flower of the field.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-2] For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-3] To his work.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-4] And occupy their business.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-5] In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-6] Right dear.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-7] The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-8] I have more understanding than my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[823-9] A lantern unto my feet, and a light unto my paths.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-1] The sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-2] Plenteousness.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-3] Like the olive branches.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-4] I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep, nor mine eyes to slumber.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-5] How good and joyful a thing it is, brethren.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-6] As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-7] And remain.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[824-8] Though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.--_Book of Common Prayer._
[830-1] See Terence, page 702.
[835-1] Stare super vias antiquas.--_The Vulgate._
[836-1] Magna est veritas et prævalet--_The Vulgate._
Usually quoted "Magna est veritas et prævalebit."
[837-1] See Pliny, page 717.
NEW TESTAMENT.
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
_Matthew ii. 18; Jeremiah xxxi. 15_.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
_Matthew iv. 4; Deuteronomy viii. 3_.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
_Matthew v. 13._
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
_Matthew v. 14._
Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
_Matthew v. 43._
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.
_Matthew vi. 1._
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
_Matthew vi. 3._
They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
_Matthew vi. 7._
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
_Matthew vi. 20._
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
_Matthew vi. 21._
The light of the body is the eye.
_Matthew vi. 22._
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
_Matthew vi. 24._
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.
_Matthew vi. 25._
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
_Matthew vi. 28._
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
_Matthew vi. 34._
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
_Matthew vii. 6._
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
_Matthew vii. 7._
Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth.
_Matthew vii. 8._
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
_Matthew vii. 9._
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
_Matthew vii. 12._
Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.
_Matthew vii. 13._
Strait is the gate and narrow is the way.
_Matthew vii. 14._
By their fruits ye shall know them.
_Matthew vii. 20._
It was founded upon a rock.
_Matthew vii. 25._
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
_Matthew viii. 20._
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.
_Matthew ix. 37._
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
_Matthew x. 16._
The very hairs of your head are all numbered.
_Matthew x. 30._
Wisdom is justified of her children.
_Matthew xi. 19; Luke vii. 35_.
The tree is known by his fruit.
_Matthew xii. 33._
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
_Matthew xii. 34._
Pearl of great price.
_Matthew xiii. 46._
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country and in his own house.
_Matthew xiii. 57._
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
_Matthew xiv. 27._
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
_Matthew xv. 14._
The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
_Matthew xv. 27._
When it is evening, ye say it will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
_Matthew xvi. 2._
The signs of the times.
_Matthew xvi. 3._
Get thee behind me, Satan.
_Matthew xvi. 23._
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
_Matthew xvi. 26._
It is good for us to be here.
_Matthew xvii. 4._
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
_Matthew xix. 6._
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
_Matthew xix. 19._
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
_Matthew xix. 24._
Borne the burden and heat of the day.
_Matthew xx. 12._
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
_Matthew xx. 15._
For many are called, but few are chosen.
_Matthew xxii. 14._
They made light of it.
_Matthew xxii. 5._
Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's.
_Matthew xxii. 21._
Woe unto you, . . . for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.
_Matthew xxiii. 23._
Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
_Matthew xxiii. 24._
Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
_Matthew xxiii. 27._
As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.
_Matthew xxiii. 37._
Wars and rumours of wars.
_Matthew xxiv. 6._
The end is not yet.
_Matthew xxiv. 6._
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
_Matthew xxiv. 28._
Abomination of desolation.
_Matthew xxiv. 15; Mark xiii. 14_.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
_Matthew xxv. 29._
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
_Matthew xxvi. 41._
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
_Mark ii. 27._
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
_Mark iii. 25._
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
_Mark iv. 9._
My name is Legion.
_Mark v. 9._
My little daughter lieth at the point of death.
_Mark v. 23._
Clothed, and in his right mind.
_Mark v. 15; Luke viii. 35_.
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
_Mark ix. 44._
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
_Luke ii. 14._
The axe is laid unto the root of the trees.
_Luke iii. 9._
Physician, heal thyself.
_Luke iv. 23._
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
_Luke vi. 26._
Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest.
_Luke viii. 17._
Peace be to this house.
_Luke x. 5._
The labourer is worthy of his hire.
_Luke x. 7; 1 Timothy v. 18_.
Go, and do thou likewise.
_Luke x. 37._
But one thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her.
_Luke x. 42._
He that is not with me is against me.
_Luke xi. 23._
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
_Luke xii. 19._
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
_Luke xii. 35._
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
_Luke xiv. 28._
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
_Luke xvi. 8._
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
_Luke xvii. 2._
Remember Lot's wife.
_Luke xvii. 32._
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
_Luke xix. 22._
If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
_Luke xxiii. 31._
He was a good man, and a just.
_Luke xxiii. 50._
Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us?
_Luke xxiv. 32._
The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
_John i. 9._
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
_John i. 46._
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
_John iii. 8._
He was a burning and a shining light.
_John v. 35._
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
_John vi. 12._
Judge not according to the appearance.
_John vii. 24._
The truth shall make you free.
_John viii. 32._
There is no truth in him.
_John viii. 44._
The night cometh when no man can work.
_John ix. 4._
The poor always ye have with you.
_John xii. 8._
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
_John xii. 35._
Let not your heart be troubled.
_John xiv. 1._
In my Father's house are many mansions.
_John xiv. 2._
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
_John xv. 13._
Thy money perish with thee.
_Acts viii. 20._
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
_Acts ix. 5._
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
_Acts ix. 36._
Lewd fellows of the baser sort.
_Acts xvii. 5._
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
_Acts xix. 28._
The law is open.
_Acts xix. 38._
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
_Acts xx. 35._
Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.
_Acts xxii. 3._
When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
_Acts xxiv. 25._
I appeal unto Cæsar.
_Acts xxx. 11._
Words of truth and soberness.
_Acts xxvi. 25._
For this thing was not done in a corner.
_Acts xxvi. 26._
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
_Acts xxvi. 28._
There is no respect of persons with God.
_Romans ii. 11._
Fear of God before their eyes.
_Romans ii. 18._
God forbid.
_Romans ii. 31._
Who against hope believed in hope.
_Romans iv. 18._
Speak after the manner of men.
_Romans vi. 19._
The wages of sin is death.
_Romans vi. 23._
For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
_Romans viii. 19._
All things work together for good to them that love God.
_Romans viii. 28._
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
_Romans ix. 21._
A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
_Romans x. 2._
Given to hospitality.
_Romans xii. 13._
Be not wise in your own conceits.
_Romans xii. 16._
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
_Romans xii. 17._
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
_Romans xii. 18._
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
_Romans xii. 20._
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
_Romans xii. 21._
The powers that be are ordained of God.
_Romans xiii. 1._
Render therefore to all their dues.
_Romans xiii. 7._
Owe no man anything, but to love one another.
_Romans xiii. 8._
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
_Romans xiii. 10._
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
_Romans xiv. 5._
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty.
_1 Corinthians i. 27._
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
_1 Corinthians iii. 6._
Every man's work shall be made manifest.
_1 Corinthians iii. 13._
Not to think of men above that which is written.[845-1]
_1 Corinthians iv. 6._
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
_1 Corinthians v. 3._
The fashion of this world passeth away.
_1 Corinthians vii. 31._
I am made all things to all men.
_1 Corinthians ix. 22._
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
_1 Corinthians x. 12._
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 1._
Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 2._
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 4._
We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 9._
When I was a child, I spake as a child. . . . When I became a man, I put away childish things.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 11._
Now we see through a glass, darkly.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 12._
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 13._
If the trumpet give an uncertain sound.
_1 Corinthians xiv. 8._
Let all things be done decently and in order.
_1 Corinthians xiv. 40._
Evil communications corrupt good manners.[846-1]
_1 Corinthians xv. 33._
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
_1 Corinthians xv. 47._
In the twinkling of an eye.
_1 Corinthians xv. 52._
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
_1 Corinthians xv. 55._
Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
_2 Corinthians iii. 6._
We have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
_2 Corinthians iii. 12._
We walk by faith, not by sight.
_2 Corinthians v. 7._
Now is the accepted time.
_2 Corinthians vi. 2._
By evil report and good report.
_2 Corinthians vi. 8._
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
_2 Corinthians vi. 10._
Though I be rude in speech.
_2 Corinthians xi. 6._
Forty stripes save one.
_2 Corinthians xi. 24._
A thorn in the flesh.
_2 Corinthians xii. 7._
Strength is made perfect in weakness.
_2 Corinthians xii. 9._
The right hands of fellowship.
_Galatians ii. 9._
Weak and beggarly elements.
_Galatians iv. 9._
It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.
_Galatians iv. 18._
Ye are fallen from grace.
_Galatians v. 4._
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
_Galatians v. 9._
Every man shall bear his own burden.
_Galatians vi. 5._
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
_Galatians vi. 7._
Middle wall of partition.
_Ephesians ii. 14._
Carried about with every wind of doctrine.
_Ephesians iv. 14._
Speak every man truth with his neighbour.
_Ephesians iv. 25._
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
_Ephesians iv. 26._
To live is Christ, and to die is gain.
_Philippians i. 21._
Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.
_Philippians iii. 19._
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
_Philippians iv. 7._
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
_Philippians iv. 8._
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
_Philippians iv. 11._
Touch not; taste not; handle not.
_Colossians ii. 21._
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.
_Colossians iii. 2._
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
_Colossians iv. 6._
Labour of love.
_1 Thessalonians i. 3._
Study to be quiet.
_1 Thessalonians iv. 11._
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
_1 Thessalonians v. 21._
The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
_1 Timothy i. 8._
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
_1 Timothy iii. 3._
He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
_1 Timothy v. 8._
Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
_1 Timothy v. 13._
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
_1 Timothy v. 23._
The love of money is the root of all evil.
_1 Timothy vi. 10._
Fight the good fight.
_1 Timothy vi. 12._
Rich in good works.
_1 Timothy vi. 18._
Science falsely so called.
_1 Timothy vi. 20._
A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
_2 Timothy ii. 15._
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
_2 Timothy iv. 7._
Unto the pure all things are pure.
_Titus i. 15._
Such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
_Hebrews v. 12._
Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
_Hebrews v. 13._
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
_Hebrews v. 14._
If God be for us, who can be against us.
_Hebrews viii. 31._
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
_Hebrews xi. 1._
Of whom the world was not worthy.
_Hebrews xi. 38._
A cloud of witnesses.
_Hebrews xii. 1._
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
_Hebrews xii. 6._
The spirits of just men made perfect.
_Hebrews xii. 23._
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
_Hebrews xiii. 2._
Yesterday, and to-day, and forever.
_Hebrews xiii. 8._
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
_James i. 12._
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
_James i. 19._
How great a matter a little fire kindleth!
_James iii. 5._
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.[849-1]
_James iii. 8._
Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
_James iv. 7._
Hope to the end.
_1 Peter i. 13._
Fear God. Honour the king.
_1 Peter ii. 17._
Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
_1 Peter iii. 4._
Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.
_1 Peter iii. 7._
Be ye all of one mind.
_1 Peter iii. 8._
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
_1 Peter iv. 8._
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
_1 Peter v. 8._
And the day star arise in your hearts.
_2 Peter i. 19._
The dog is turned to his own vomit again.
_2 Peter ii. 22._
Bowels of compassion.
_1 John iii. 17._
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
_1 John iv. 18._
Be thou faithful unto death.
_Revelation ii. 10._
He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
_Revelation ii. 27._
All nations and kindreds and tongues.
_Revelation vii. 9._
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
_Revelation xxii. 13._
FOOTNOTES:
[845-1] Usually quoted, "To be wise above that which is written."
[846-1] Phtheirousin êthê chrêsth' omiliai kakai.--MENANDER (341 B. C.). (Dübner's edition of his "Fragments," appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca, p. 102, line 101.)
[849-1] Usually quoted, "The tongue is an unruly member."
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
_Morning Prayer._
The noble army of martyrs.
_Morning Prayer._
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
_Prayer for all Conditions of Men._
Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
_The Litany._
From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
_The Litany._
The world, the flesh, and the devil.
_The Litany._
The kindly fruits of the earth.
_The Litany._
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
_Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent._
Renounce the Devil and all his works.
_Baptism of Infants._
Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them.
_Baptism of those of Riper Years._
The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
_Catechism._
To keep my hands from picking and stealing.
_Catechism._
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
_Catechism._
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
_Catechism._
Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
_Solemnization of Matrimony._
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
_Solemnization of Matrimony._
To love, cherish, and to obey.
_Solemnization of Matrimony._
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.[851-1]
_Solemnization of Matrimony._
In the midst of life we are in death.[851-2]
_The Burial Service._
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
_The Burial Service._
Whose service is perfect freedom.
_Collect for Peace._
Show thy servant the light of thy countenance.
_The Psalter. Psalm xxxi. 18._
But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
_The Psalter. Psalm lv. 14._
Men to be of one mind in an house.
_The Psalter. Psalm lxviii. 6._
The iron entered into his soul.
_The Psalter. Psalm cv. 18._
The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.
_The Psalter. Psalm cx. 3._
FOOTNOTES:
[851-1] With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.--_Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America._
[851-2] This is derived from a Latin antiphon, said to have been composed by Notker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, while watching some workmen building a bridge at Martinsbrücke, in peril of their lives. It forms the ground-work of Luther's antiphon "De Morte."
TATE AND BRADY.[851-3]
Untimely grave.
_Psalm vii._
And though he promise to his loss, He makes his promise good.
_Psalm xv. 5._
The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
_Psalm cxii. 6._
FOOTNOTES:
[851-3] Nahum Tate, 1652-1715; Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726.
APPENDIX.
All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
From the inscription on the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey.
Am I not a man and a brother?
From a medallion by Wedgwood (1787), representing a negro in chains, with one knee on the ground, and both hands lifted up to heaven. This was adopted as a characteristic seal by the Antislavery Society of London.
Anything for a quiet life.
Title of a play by Middleton.
Art and part.
A Scotch law-phrase,--an accessory before and after the fact. A man is said to be _art and part_ of a crime when he contrives the manner of the deed, and concurs with and encourages those who commit the crime, although he does not put his own hand to the actual execution of it.--SCOTT: _Tales of a Grandfather, chap. xxii._ (_Execution of Morton._)
Art preservative of all arts.
From the inscription upon the façade of the house at Harlem formerly occupied by Laurent Koster (or Coster), who is charged, among others, with the invention of printing. Mention is first made of this inscription about 1628:--
MEMORIÆ SACRUM TYPOGARAPHIA ARS ARTIUM OMNIUM CONSERVATRIX. HIC PRIMUM INVENTA CIRCA ANNUM MCCCCXL.
As gingerly.
CHAPMAN: _May Day._ SHAKESPEARE: _Two Gentlemen of Verona._
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
The motto of David Crockett in the war of 1812.
Before you could say Jack Robinson.
This current phrase is said to be derived from a humorous song by Hudson, a tobacconist in Shoe Lane, London. He was a professional song-writer and vocalist, who used to be engaged to sing at supper-rooms and theatrical houses.
A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye _Jacke! robys on_.
HALLIWELL: _Archæological Dictionary._ (Cited from an old Play.)
Begging the question.
This is a common logical fallacy, _petitio principii_; and the first explanation of the phrase is to be found in Aristotle's "Topica," viii. 13, where the five ways of begging the question are set forth. The earliest English work in which the expression is found is "The Arte of Logike plainlie set forth in our English Tongue, &c." (1584.)
Better to wear out than to rust out.
When a friend told Bishop Cumberland (1632-1718) he would wear himself out by his incessant application, "It is better," replied the Bishop, "to wear out than to rust out."--HORNE: _Sermon on the Duty of Contending for the Truth._
BOSWELL: _Tour to the Hebrides, p. 18, note._
Beware of a man of one book.
When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked in what manner a man might best become learned, he answered, "By reading one book." The _homo unius libri_ is indeed proverbially formidable to all conversational figurantes.--SOUTHEY: _The Doctor, p. 164._
Bitter end.
This phrase is nearly without meaning as it is used. The true phrase, "better end," is used properly to designate a crisis, or the moment of an extremity. When in a gale a vessel has paid out all her cable, her cable has run out to the "better end,"--the end which is secured within the vessel and little used. Robinson Crusoe in describing the terrible storm in Yarmouth Roads says, "We rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the better end."
Cockles of the heart.
Latham says the most probable explanation of this phrase lies (1) in the likeness of a heart to a cockleshell,--the base of the former being compared to the hinge of the latter; (2) in the zoölogical name for the cockle and its congeners being _Cardium_, from kardia (heart).
Castles in the air.
This is a proverbial phrase found throughout English literature, the first instance noted being in Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy."
Consistency, thou art a jewel.
This is one of those popular sayings--like "Be good, and you will be happy," or "Virtue is its own reward"--that, like Topsy, "never _was_ born, only jist growed." From the earliest times it has been the popular tendency to call this or that cardinal virtue, or bright and shining excellence, a jewel, by way of emphasis. For example, Iago says,--
"_Good name_, in man or woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate _jewel_ of their souls."
Shakespeare elsewhere calls _experience_ a "jewel." Miranda says her _modesty_ is the "jewel" in her dower; and in "All 's Well that ends Well," Diana terms her _chastity_ the "jewel" of her house.--R. A. WIGHT.
O discretion, thou art a jewel!--_The Skylark, a Collection of well-chosen English Songs._ (London, 1772.)
The origin of this expression is unknown. Some wag of the day allayed public curiosity in regard to its source with the information that it is from the ballad of Robin Roughhead in Murtagh's "Collection of Ballads (1754)." It is needless to say that Murtagh is a verbal phantom, and the ballad of Robin Roughhead first appeared in an American newspaper in 1867.
Cotton is King; or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy.
This is the title of a book by David Christy (1855).
The expression "Cotton is king" was used by James Henry Hammond in the United States Senate, March, 1858.
Dead as Chelsea.
To get Chelsea: to obtain the benefit of that hospital. "Dead as Chelsea, by God!" an exclamation uttered by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by a cannon-ball.--_Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue_, 1758 (quoted by Brady, "Varieties of Literature," 1826).
Die in the last ditch.
To William of Orange may be ascribed this saying. When Buckingham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined, "There is one certain means," replied the Prince, "by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin,--I will die in the last ditch."--HUME: _History of England._ (1622.)
Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.
Macaulay ("History of England," chap. xii.) gives a saying "often in the mouth of Stephen Rice [afterward Chief Baron of the Exchequer], 'I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement.'"
During good behaviour.
That after the said limitation shall take effect, . . . judge's commissions be made _quando se bene gesserit_.--_Statutes 12 and 13 William III. c. 2, sect. 3._
Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.
Declared by Captain O'Kelley at Epsom, May 3, 1769.--_Annals of Sporting, vol. ii. p. 271._
Emerald Isle.
Dr. William Drennan (1754-1820) says this expression was first used in a party song called "Erin, to her own Tune," written in 1795. The song appears to have been anonymous.
Era of good feeling.
The title of an article in the "Boston Centinel," July 12, 1817.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.--JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN: _Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790._ (_Speeches. Dublin, 1808._)
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.--DEMOSTHENES: _Philippic 2, sect. 24._
Fiat justitia ruat coelum.
WILLIAM WATSON: _Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions_ (1602). PRYNNE: _Fresh Discovery of Prodigious New Wandering-Blazing Stars_ (second edition, London, 1646). WARD: _Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America_ (1647).
Fiat Justitia et ruat Mundus.--_Egerton Papers_ (1552, p. 25). _Camden Society_ (1840). AIKIN: _Court and Times of James I., vol. ii. p. 500_ (1625).
January 31, 1642, the Duke of Richmond in a speech before the House of Lords used these words: _Regnet Justitia et ruat Coelum._ (Old Parliamentary History, vol. x. p. 28.)
Free soil, free men, free speech, Frémont.
The Republican Party rallying cry in 1856.
Gentle craft.
According to Brady ("Clavis Calendaria"), this designation arose from the fact that in an old romance a prince of the name of Crispin is made to exercise, in honour of his namesake, Saint Crispin, the trade of shoemaking. There is a tradition that King Edward IV., in one of his disguises, once drank with a party of shoemakers, and pledged them. The story is alluded to in the old play of "George a-Greene" (1599):--
Marry, because you have drank with the King, And the King hath so graciously pledged you, You shall no more be called shoemakers; But you and yours, to the world's end, Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.
Gentlemen of the French guard, fire first.
Lord C. Hay at the battle of Fontenoy, 1745. To which the Comte d'Auteroches replied, "Sir, we never fire first; please to fire yourselves."--FOURNIER: _L'Esprit dans l'histoire._
Good as a play.
An exclamation of Charles II. when in Parliament attending the discussion of Lord Ross's Divorce Bill.
The king remained in the House of Peers while his speech was taken into consideration,--a common practice with him; for the debates amused his sated mind, and were sometimes, he used to say, as good as a comedy.--MACAULAY: _Review of the Life and Writings of Sir William Temple._
Nullos his mallem ludos spectasse.--HORACE: _Satires, ii. 8, 79._
Greatest happiness of the greatest number.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.--HUTCHESON: _Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, sect. 3._ (1720.)
Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth,--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.--BENTHAM: _Works, vol. x. p. 142._
The expression is used by Beccaria in the introduction to his "Essay on Crimes and Punishments." (1764.)
Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
_Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys_ (edition of 1805, p. 5).
Hobson's choice.
Tobias Hobson (died 1630) was the first man in England that let out hackney horses. When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable-door; so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance,--from whence it became a proverb when what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say, "Hobson's choice."--_Spectator, No. 509._
Where to elect there is but one, 'T is Hobson's choice,--take that or none.
THOMAS WARD (1577-1639): _England's Reformation, chap. iv. p. 326._
Intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.
Lord Coleridge remarked that Maule told him what he said in the "black beetle" matter: "Creswell, who had been his pupil, was on the other side in a case where he was counsel, and was very lofty in his manner. Maule appealed to the court: 'My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.'" (Repeated to a member of the legal profession in the United States.)
It is a far cry to Lochow.
Lochow and the adjacent districts formed the original seat of the Campbells. The expression of "a far cry to Lochow" was proverbial. (Note to Scott's "Rob Roy," chap. xxix.)
Lucid interval.
BACON: _Henry VII._ SIDNEY: _On Government, vol. i. chap. ii. sect. 24._ FULLER: _A Pisgah Sight of Palestine,