New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-26
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John Bartlett
One of the dres pests Of conversation is, no doubt,
learned quotation and if this volume were Intended to
promote that ntolerabe nuisance it should receive no
favor from humane critics. The compiler has rather
aimed at tracing to their source some OF the popular
savings which are current in literature and society, and
thus enabling persons identify the waits and estrsys
about which their curiosity has been excited lie has
performed his task with competent knowledge and e1-
celent Judgment, and although no work of the kind
can be exhaustive or satisfy the demands OF every
reader he has made quite successful search TOR the
origin Of numerous phrases whose paternity is often
injured for in vain Thus the famous phrase " wise
and mastery inactivity" which was used by John
C. Calhoun, and previously by John Randolph, is
found for the first time in the Vindica Gallic1'
Sir James Macintosh l19ll, in the following passage;
"The Commons, faithful to their systsm, renamed In
a rise and mastery inactivity "God tempers the
wind to the sho lamb is often quoted as verse OF
Scripture but it is from Sternes sentimental Jour-
new" though not original with him, as it occurs IN
George Herbert's Jacula Prudentum, ITO Close
shorn sheep God gives wind by measure" and more
literally in French collection Of proverbs Henri
E. me, "Piemas, 1894, "God measures the wind to
the shorn sheep Men use language to conceal their
thoughts which has been ascrbed to Taleyrand, and
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where natures end Of LANGUAGE Is declined
And men talk only to conceal their mind
The phrase was also employed by voltaire, Men
nae words only to dir guise their thoughts" Cowpers
familiar line. God made the country, and man made
tho town." appears originally in COwley with still
.tronper antiiheGs-" God the fire. garden made and
the first city, CAIN" So also Cpwpers panegyric on
tes the cups that cheer but not nebriate, was rs
applied by Bishop Berkeley in his Sirs to the sov-
reign virtues of the tar.wster, "It is of nature
go mild and benign and proportional to the hu nan
constitution as 10 VAIN without heating to cheer 1t
not iDebriste." Words worhs The child is father 20
the man is limited at in Millions Paradise Regained,
The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day"
So didst thoutrsvel on life common way
In cheerful sodline1,"
from the " Excursion" was anticipated by Sir Thomas
More:
"Jouneyns on hf,'s common way
In cheerful eodineH'
We find Thomas Campbens L" like auge-viss, few
and far between in old John Norris l657-l7ll),
Lille angels visits short nd bright,
Mortsliy's too weak TO bear them long,,
and in Robert Blairs l699-l746l Grave
In visits ike those Of angels short and far beiween
"Mso proposer, but God disposes,' often qnoted
from Thomas a Kempis 13s0-lfl, De lmitatione
Christi is of much greater antiquity and is found in
the Chronicle Of Batel Abbey QO66-ll76l, and III
Piers Plough mans Visor. Sir Walter Scott is made
to father the popular cstch.word, There's GUIDE
time ccmrg' Rob Roy, Oh. S9 " The Almighty
Dollar lie the expression Of Washington Irving; Nil
lions for defense but not cent for tribute, was fret
said by Charles Cotesworth PiuckDey, when Enbassa-
dor 70 the French Republic, 1896; Another morn
| ,ists on mid-noon is in Wordswerths " Prelude,
and previously in Milton from whom II was quoted by
Webster; ard libraries, before whose tones meek.
eyed Patience folds her hands despair from Everett
| Phi Beta Kappa oraiOn.
The edition Of this woik now published IS enriched
| with supplement coLtairiDg msny new quosstons,
ard several OF them from the works Of popular hyn
writers. singular insdvertence in al the editions Is
the divi.ion Of the Holy Scriptures ito the Old Tesa-
melt, The Book tf Common Prayer, Tate and Bra'y
| U,ur Book and tie Ne Tesla neui.
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