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. chap. ii._ SOUTH: _Sermon, vol. viii. p. 403._ DRYDEN: _MacFlecknoe._ MATHEW HENRY: _Commentaries, Psalm lxxxviii._ JOHNSON: _Life of Lyttelton._ BURKE: _On the French Revolution._

Nisi suadeat intervallis.

BRACTON: _Folio 1243 and folio 420 b. Register Original, 267 a._

Mince the matter.

CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, Author's Preface._ SHAKESPEARE: _Othello, act ii. sc. 3._ WILLIAM KING: _Ulysses and Teresias._

Months without an R.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an _R_ in their name to eat an oyster.--BUTLER: _Dyet's Dry Dinner._ (1599.)

Nation of shopkeepers.

From an oration purporting to have been delivered by Samuel Adams at the State House in Philadelphia, Aug. 1, 1776. (Philadelphia, printed; London, reprinted for E. Johnson, No. 4 Ludgate Hill, 1776.) W. V. Wells, in his Life of Adams, says: "No such American edition has ever been seen, but at least four copies are known of the London issue. A German translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Berne; the place of publication is not given."

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.--ADAM SMITH: _Wealth of Nations, vol. ii. book iv . chap. vii.