The constitutional union., 1861-01-25
[From "Things not Generally Known. FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

l DlDle Kings, lY., 4U.
 Lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in death they were not divided" is spoken ot of Saul and Jonathan Samuel, i, 23.
 '' A man after his own heart" l Samuel xiii, 14
 "The apple of his eye" Deut,, xix, 21.
 " A still small voice. 1 Kings, xix, 12
 " Escaped with the skin of my teeth. " Job, xix, 20.
 " That mine adversary had written book " Job, xix, 35
 Spreading himself like green bay tree " Psalm, xxxvii., 35.
 !" Hanging our harp upon the willows " Psalm cxxxvii., 2.
 Riches certainly make (not take, as it is often quoted) themselves wings, Proverbs, xiii, 5.
 Heap coals of fire upon his head" Pro- verbs, XIV, 23, 23."
 No new thing under the sun" Ecclesi- astes, i.,9.
 "Of making many books there is no end" Ecclesiastes, xii, 12.
 Peace, peace, when there is no peace" (made famous by Patrick Henry) Jeremiah, viii, II.
 :" My name is Legion" Mark, V, G.
 e. To kick against the bricks, Acts, iv., 5. Make virtue of necessity" Shakespeare $ Two gentlemen of Verona
 All that glistens is not gold," usually quoted " All is not gold that glitters" Mer- chant of Venice.
 Screw your courage to the sticking place" :" (not point,) Macbeth.
 |" Make assurance doubly sure" Ibid
 Hang out our banners on the outward (not outer) walls" Ibid Keep the word of promise to our (not the) ear, but break it to our hope" Ibid. |" It is an i'll wind turns none to good" usu- ally quoted, |" It's an i'll wind that blows no one any good Thomas Tasser, 158O
 Christmas comes but once year" Ibid. Look ere thou leap" Ibid and "Look before you ere you leap," Hudibras common ly quoted, Look before you leap"
 !" Out of mind as soon as out of sight" usually quoted, " Out of sight, out of mind" Lord Brooke
 What though the field be lost, all is not lost" Milton.
 Awake, arise, or be forever fallen" Ibid Necessity, the tyrant's plea" Ibid 1
 Peace hath many victories" Ibid.
 "Though this may be play to you, 'tis death to us" Roger L'Estran ge, 17O4
 All cry and no wool, (not little wool.) Hudibras
 Count their chickens ere (not before) they're hatched." Ibid.
 "Through thick and thin" Dryden
 When Greeks joined Greeks, then comes the tug of war" usually quoted, "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war" Nathaniel Lee, 1892
 Of the two evils, 1 have chosen the least" Prior
 Richard is himself again." Colley Cibber Classic ground" Addison.
 "As clear as a whistle" Byron, 1763. "A good hater" Johnsoniana
 X fellow feeling makes one (not us) won drous kind"
 My name is Noryal" John Home, 1908. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fbs" Goldsmith
 Not much the worse for wear" (not none the worse.) Cowper.
 "What will Mrs Grundy say" Thomas Morton
 No pent up Utica contracts our powers" Jonathan M Seweu.
 Hath given hostage to fortune" Bacon. His Gods image cut in ebony" Thomas Fuller.
 "Wise and masterly inactivity" Mcintosh in 179l, though generally attributed to Ran dolrh.
 "First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his fellow-citTens," (not country men.) Resolutions presented to House of Representatives, December, 1799, prepared by Gen. Henry Lee.
 Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" Charles c. Pickney.
 "The Almighty Dollar" Washington IT, wing.
 'As good as play" King Charles, when in Parliament attending the discussion of Lord Ross divorce case.
 Selling a bargain is in Love Labor Lost
 Fast and loose" Ibid.
 Pumping man." Otteway's Venice eserved.
 "Go snacks." Pope's Prologue to Satires {" 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 quotation, 4empora n,utantar, nos et mutamur ia Wts" is not found in any classic or Latin au- thor The nearest approach to it was, !" Ona- nia nautant,u'," etc, and this is found in Bour- bonius, German writer of the Middle Ages. Smelling of the lamp" IS to be found ill Plutarch, and is attributed to Pythias.
 |" A little bird told me comes from Eccle- siasties, K, 20 "For bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter"
 H 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 a couplet published in l542, while one of the few fragments of Meander, the Greek writer, that have been preserved, embodies the same idea in single line. The couplet in Hudibras is:
 Hell is paved with good intentions" i" though found in Johnson and Herbert, was obviously in their day aproverbial expression Walter Scott ascribes it to some stern old divine"
 "There's a good time coming" is an ex-