New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-08
Familiar Quotations.


Familiar Quotations.
BY D. a. WELLS. t@Stk
There are many phrases and quotations which are
as !. familiar in our mouths Is household words"
whose origin is either unknown CT misconceved and
without encroaching upon the sphere of the works
devoted to this purpose, we may mention few OF
them:
There is death in the pot" is from the Bible
K . a. he1 an, no pdsed II s seoken ns
Saul and Jonathan, 2 Samuel j. %. "A man after
his own heart l Samuel, xiii. a. "The apple Of
his eye," Deut. xix. 81. "a still small voice"
Job, xix. 20. "That mine adversary, had written
book" Job, xxi. rs. "Spreading himself like
green bay tree,' Psalm, xxxyii. 81. Hanged our
6arps upon the willows" Psalm, sxxxyi Riches
wings, Proverbs, xiii. s. Heap Goals of fire upon
bis head, :" Ibid. XIV. o. "No new thing under the
SUM-" Eccesiastes i. 9. "Of making many books
there is no end.' Ibid, xii. u. 'Peace, peace,
Henry) jeremiah, viii. II. "My name Is legion"
s. Make virtue of necessity shakspeare's Two
Gentlemen Of Verona. "All that gsters is not gold"
chant Of Venice, Screw your courage to the stick.
ing place. (not point) Macbeth. " Make assurance
donby sure, Ibid. /" Hang out your banners on the
outward mot outer) wallis" Ibid. +" Keep the word
|
hope" Ibid alt is an ill-wind that turns none to
good, " usually quoted, It is an i'll wind that blows
no one any good" Thomas Tasser, 1880. Christ
mas comes but once year. Ibid look ere thou
Hudibras, commonly quoted " Look before you leap"
IS Out Of mind as out of sight, usually quoted
!" Out of sight out of mind. Lord Broke. What
though the field be lost, all is not lost" Milton
sity the tyrants plea" Ibid. q That old man elo
quent" Ibid. Peace hath her Victories" Ibid
Though this may be play to you' It's death to
All cry and no WOOL" mot little woody Hudibras.
Count their chickens (not before) they're hatch
ed" Ibid. " Through thick and thin,n Dryden.
''When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug OF
war;" usually quoted When Greek meets Greek eek
two evils, have chose the least Prior. Richard
is himself again., Colley Cbber. Classic ground
good hater," Johnsonian. :" fellow feeling makes
is Norval,n John Home. !" Ask me no questions, and
I'll tell you no fibs,, Goldsmith Not much the
worse for wear" (not none the worse) Cowper
/" What will Mrs. Grundy say 2" Thomas Morton
F" No pentup Utica contracts your power" Jona M.
sewell /" Hath given hostages to fortune" Bacon
" His (God's) image cnt in ebony" Thomas Fuller
Wise and mastery inactivity" Macintosh, in ISL
though generally attributed to Randolph. First in
war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his fel
low citizens (not countrymen) resolutions presented
to House Of Representatives, December 1893, prepared
by Cen Henry Lee. Millions for defence, but not
one cent for tribute" Charles G. Pinckney. The
| Almighty Dollar" Washington Irving. As good as
play" King Charles, when in Parliament, attending
the discussion of Lord Ross divorce BILL Selling
a bargain is in Loves Labor Lost. Fast and
loose Ibid. :" Pumping q man. Otway's Venice
| Z. In the wrong box Fox's Martyrs. "To lamn in
the sense of to heal " King and no King by Beaumont
and Fletcher. The hackneyed newspaper Latin quo.
tation, " Temporal mutantur, nos ct mutamus in ILLS"
! Fo,,,, Tn4tp auth NInp
nearest approach to it was ''Omna mutantnr,' etc.
and this is found in Borbonus, German writer of
the middle ages.
"smeling Of the lamp is to be found in Plutarch,
told me comes from Ecclesastes, X, 20 For a
bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which
hath wings shall tell the matter"
- He that fights and away
May live to fight another day
These lines usually ascribed to Hudbras really
much older They are to be found in a book pub
lished in 1856. The same idea is however expressed
in coupet published in 1912, while one OF the few
been preserved embodies the same idea in single
line. The couplet in Hudibras is:
| For those that fly may fight again
| Which he can never do that's slain"
| There's a good time coming is an expression
used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob Roy, and has doubt
less for long time been familiar saying in Scotland
Eripuu colo fllnen, scept,pmcue tyrannis, was a
line upon franklin written by Turgot, the minister
VI lLOulb "a i. IL uONtfel, utiely
of line by Cardinal Polignac, Eripuitq,te Jovi full
men, Phaboqe sagtas, which in turn was taken from
a line Of Marcus Manus, who says Of Epicurus, Fri
paitgui Jopi ttinaen siresq, n 1onantt.
Vor popui, roe Del. The origin of this familiar
phrase is not known, but is quoted as proverb by
William Of Malmesbury, who lived in the early part
! of the twelfth century.
Ultima ratio regum. This motto was engraved on
| the French cannon by order of Louis XIV.
I 'whistlng girls and growing hens,
l.tY Always come to some bad end"
In one of the curious Chinese books recently trans
lated aud published in Paris, this proverb occurs in
substantially the same words. 1t is also injunc-
ton of the Chinese priesthood, and carefully OBJ
served household custom, to kill Immediately every
hen that crows preventive against the misfortune
which the circumstance is supposed to indicate.
| THINGS NEW AND INTERESTING IN SCIENCE.-Pro
lessor Hansen, of Seeberg, a renowned astronomer
has recently completed series of elaborate calcula
tons, based observations of the moon which cleaI
away of the difficulties of the question as re
CARDS our satellite. His published results are for the
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