Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-05
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IDtoief = iAihEsa ibf ~ 1vNety a9u PeaST
not divided" is spoken of Saul and john
athan, 2 Samuel, J. %. "a man after bis
own Heart, ~ Samuel, Xiii. IL. "fhe ap-
pie of his eyei' 9Deut xix. 2l. "A STILL,
small voice. Kings, Sixal2. Escaped
with the skin of my teeth" Job, xix. 2O.-7
"That mine adversary had written aboOk,"'
Job, xxi. 35. "Spreadibg himself like n
green bay tree" Psalm, xxxvii. 80. "Hang-
ed our harps upon the Willow Psalm,
cxXxyii,,2. YRiches certainly make mot
take, as it is often quoted,) themselves
wings" Proverbs, xxifi! 5. ''Heap Goals 0f
firempon his! head" Ibid, XIV. "a 3tNo
new thing under the suni1 Ecolesiastes,r !.
8. '0f making many books thereyis no
end" Ibid, xii. u. "Peace, peace, when
there is no peace,n fmade famous by Pat
rick Henry. jeremiah, vIii.1l. my name
is LEGION" Mark, ". o. TO kick against
necessity" Shakspeare's Two Gentlemen
Of hVerona. aAll that glitters Is not
gold" usually quoted, '-All is not gold
that glitters," Merchant of Venice. "Screw
your courage to tine sticking placer mot
pOint,) Macbeth. snake assurance dOub-
" sure" Ibid. "Hang out your BAN
ners upon the outward walls" Ibid. "Keep
the word Of promise to oar (nOt nteD
ear. but break 1t to our hope" Ibid.
''It's an i'll wind turns no good" usually
quoted Its an Ill wind that blows no one
any good, Thomas Tas er, 1880. ''CbristL
mas comes but once year." Ibid. "LOOk
ere you leap" Ibid, and Look before you
ere you leap" Hudibras, commonly quot
ed, 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. ''The old man eloquent" Ibid. "Peace
hath her victories" Ibid. Though this
may be play to you, It's death to us" Roger
rEstrage. "All cry and no wool" mot little
wooD. Hudibras. Count their chickens ere
mot beiore) they are hatched," Ibid
Through thick and tllin," Dryden. ''When
Greeks Joined Greeks, then was the tug of
war" usually quoted, when Greek meets
Greek then comes the tug of war;" Nathan
iel Lee, 1862. "Ot two evils have chosen
the least" Prior. "Richard is himself
again" Colley Cibber. 'Classic ground"
Addison. "a good hater,n johnson. INV
name is Norval," John Home, 1S0S "Ask
me no questions and I'll tell You no fibs.'
Goldsmith. Not much the worse for wear"
mot none the worse), Cowper. "What will
Mrs. Grlndy say" Thomas Morton. "No
pent up Utica contracts our power" Jonai
than Sewell. ..u -.. .. .H .g. .rt.-,i
Hath given hostages to fortune" Bacon,
His (God's) image cut in ebony" Thomas
Fuller. "Wise and masterly inactivity"
Macintosh, in 1871, though generally at
tributed to John Randolph. First in war,
| first in peace and first In the hearts Of his
| fellow citizens" (not countrymen), Reso-
lutiOns presented to the House Of Repre-
sentatives December, 1799 prepared by,
! General Henry Lee, Millions TOR defense,
but not one cent for tribute" Charles G.
Pinckney. "The Almighty dollar, WASH
ington Irving. "As good as play" King
Charles, when in Parliament, attending the,
discussion of Ross divorce bill "Selling
bargain,"is in Loves Labor Lost. Fast
and loose" IBID. Pumping man." OF
ways Venice Preserved. go Snaeks,"
Pope's Prologue to Satires. g In the wrong
box" Fox's Martyrs. ITO lam" in the
sense of TO beat, King and no King, by
Beaumont and Fletcher The hackneyed
newspaper Latin quotation, Temlpord mt
taHt,T, nos et Dutdrnur in Ills" is not found
in any classic or Latin author. The nearest
approach to it was, OmniG Dlutdntur," ETC.,
and this is found in Borbonius, German
writer of the middle ages. . 'NIt i. 10
"Smelling of the lamp" is to be found in
| Plutarch, and there is attributed to Pythias.
"a little bird told me-" comes from Eccle-
siastes, x. 20: "For bird of the air shall
carry the voice. and that which hath wings
shall tell the matter" 1Ht .- f-I. Ei'
"He that fights and runs away, i"
May live to fgut at another day."
These, lines generally attributed 10 HUI
dibras, 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 1912, while one of the \
few fragments of Meander, the Greek
writer, that have been preserved, embodies
the same idea in single line. The COUP
let in Hudibras is:
"For those that fly may fight again.
-. Which he can never do that's slain." .iii a.
Shell is paved with good intentions,ni
though found in johnson and Herbert, was
obviously in that day proverbian express;
sion.a Walter Scott ascribes 1t to some
'stern old divine" .alqoal u13Hiuuc
There's good time coming" is an ex-
preston used by Sir Walter Scott In Rob
Roy, and has doubtless tor long time been
familiar saying in Scotland. ,,e l..y.,
Eripun eCeLO, SceptrttnlQae tyTdnnis, was q
line upon Franklin written by Tugot, the
minister of Louis XVI. 1t is, however,
merely modification of line by Cardinal
Polignac, Erpuitqne Joui Julmen l hGbOqiel
| SdyttdS, which in turn was taken from
line of Marcus Manllius, who says of Epi-
Gurus, EFipiuiqus, y oUi Jttl'ReH Uiresqne To-
Rdnti. ilr' |ui' B. -f.HH HH.rldl i1R 1las1InI
0Uhi1no ratio reQsm. This motto was en-b
graved on the French cannon by order of
Louis XIV Yv.... la .H'. eH ,FI so nD..,
| 3li %" Whistling girls and Growing hens W ii N13
| g.0H Always como TO some bad ends" d1 zee 90
In one of the curious ChiBese books re-
Gently translated and published in Paris,
this proverb occurs in substantially, the
same words. 1t is an injunction OF the
Chinese priesthood, and carefully observ-
ed household custom to kill immediately
every hen that crows, as preventive
against the misfortune that the ,circum-
stance supposed to Indicate. The same
practice prevails through many portions
of the United States. Things Not Generally ,
HnotOn. 'l.in 5}ho 9t i.hl ~, tl ~
In Clermont County the taxes, under the 2
new war dispensation, are about tifty per 4,
cent. higher than they were last year.
This fact is thus alluded to by the CSer- g
mont 10Y Sun: N. ~ ~ 2.llF r',s 7,
@THE LAST DoLLAR.-We have seen dur I.
ing the tax-paying season-which closed 4
on Wednesday last7-several gentlemen who :
were more than willing, during the war, to
give their last dollar, with faces as long as
the moral law and pocket-books as fat as
pancakes. Poor souls, they win have to \
stand up to the rack, fodder or no fodder,
They belong to that class Of men WHOSE
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