The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1857-07-16

good hater," Johnsoniana. "A fellow feel
ing makes one (not us) wondrous kinds"
Garriek. "My name is Norval," John
Home, 1908. ASK me no questions, and
iii tell you no fibs," Goldsmith. mot
much the worse for wear" (not none the
worse) Cowper. "What will Mrs. Grundy
say" Thomas Morton. "No pentup Utica
contracts your powers" iona. M. Sewell.
" Hath given hostages to fortune" Bacon.
" His (1od's) image cut in ebony," Thomas
Fuller. " Wise and mastery inactivity"
",Mackintosh, in l79l, though generally at.
'tributed to Randolph. First in war. first
Yin peace, and first in the hearts Of his fellow
citizens" (not countrymen) resolutions pre-.
sented to House Of Representatives, Decem.
Der. 1890, prepared by Gen. Henry Lee.
" Millions for Defence but not one cent for
tribute" Charles c. Pinckney. The Al
mighty Dollar" Washington Irving. GAS
good as a play" King Charles, when in Par.
lament, attending the discussion of Lord
Ross divorce bill. "Seling bargain " is
in Loves Labor Lost e Fast and loose"
Ibid. Pumping man." Otway's Venice
Preserved. 60 snacks," Pope's prolouge
to Satires. In the wrong box" Fox's
Martyrs. To lamm in the sense of to
heal" King and no King, by Beaumont and
Fletcher. The hackneyed newspaper Latin
quotation. Temporal mutantur, NOS at mu
tamus in ills" is not found in any classic or
Latin author. The nearest approach to it
was d" Omnia mutantur," DC, and this is
found in Borboniuus, II German writer OF the
middle ages.
Smelling If the lamp" is to be found in
| Plutarch, and is there attributed to Pytheas
" A little bird told me-" comes from Eccle-
Siastes, 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 runs away,
May live to fight another day"
These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras,
are really much older. They are to be
found in a book published in 1856. The
same idea is. however, expressed in coup.
let published in 1912, while one of the few
fragments of Menander, the German writer,
:h*t have been preserved, embodied the
same idea in single line. The couplet in
lludibras is:
For those that fly may fight again,
| Which he can never do that's slain"
There's good time coming" is an ex-
preston used by Sir Walter Scott in Rob
Roy, and has, doubtless, for a long time
been familiar saying in Scotland.
Eripuit ceio tuln,cn, sceptrumgue tyran-
mas, was II line upon Franklin. written by
Turgot. the minister of Louis XVI. 1t is.
however, merely modification of line by
Cardinal Polignac, Eripuitque Jooi futmen
Pho6oquc sdgitas, which, in turn, was tax
ell from line Of Marcus Manilus, who says
of Epicurus, Eripuitqus Jovi .tutmen vi-
RESCUE Tonanti.
Vo1 popuH, Vor Del. The origin of
this familiar phrase is not known, but it is
quoted rs proverb by William Malmesbu.
ry, 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.
"Whstling girls and growing hens,
Always come to some bad end"
In one Of tho curious Chinese books, re.
Gently translated and published in Paris
this proverb occurs in substantially the same
words. 1t is also All Injunction of the Chi
neSe priesthood, and carefully observed
household custom, to kill immediately every
hen that crows. rs preventive against the
misfortu ne which the circumstance is sup
posed to indicate. The same practice pre-
walls throughout many portions Of the Unit.
ed States.