New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-26
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Eyerybody's Words.

q There is death in the pot,n is from the Bible,
Kings, ". 40. Lovely and pleasant in their
lives, and in death they were not divided is
spoken of Saul and Johnson, Samnel, i. %. "a
man n an after his own heart" l Samuel, xiii. IA.
sm mhe apple Of hs eye" Deut xix, T. still
the skin of my, teeth" Job, xix. 20. "That mine
adversary had written a book Job, xxi IS.
spreading himself like green bay tree Pslam
x .sa !, g. 70. Hanged our harps upon the will
mot take as it is often 1uoted) themselves wings"
Proverbs, xiii. 5. Heap Goals Of fire upon his
head, ;, ibid XIV %. No new thing under the
SUM-" Ecclesiastes, j. 9. "Of making many books
when there is no peace (made famous BY Patrick
Mark, v. 9. "To kick against the pricks" Acts,
tx. 8. Make virtue of necessity" Shakspeare's
not gold" usually quoted, All is not gold that
| glitters,' Merchant of Venice. "Screw your cour.
age to the sticking place. mot point, Macbeth
Make assurance doubly sure" ibid. Hang out
your banners on the outward wallis ibid. Keep
the word Of promise to our mot Me) ear but
break it to our hope,' ibid.
+" It's an i'll wind turns none to good, )" usually
quoted :. It's an i'll wind that blows no one any
good" Thomas Tasser, 1880 christmas comes
but once year y ibid. "Look ere you leap"
ibid, and Look before you, ere you leap" Hu-
| dribas, commonly quoted, "Look before you
leap "Out Of mind as soon as out of sight"
usually quoted, Out of sight, out Of mind
is not lost" Milton: Awake, arise, or be forever
fallen" ibid. Necessity, the tyrants plea"
ibid. That old man eloquent" ibid. "Peace
hath her victories ibid. Though this may be
Pay IT'S a aea to Roger hEstange
Hudbras. Count their chickens ere mot before)
they're hatched,' ibid. Through thick and
thin" Dryden. when Greeks joined Greeks,
then ea was the tug of war" Nathaniel Lee, 1892
| haya nhnra tba Dr;n
:" Richard is himself again. Cooley Cibber.
Classic ground" Addison. "a good hater"
johnson. my name is Norval,n John Home,
aSos LAX me no questions and I'll tell you no
wear, mot none the worse) Cowper. :What
will Mrs. Grundy say" Thomas Morton. .:No
NJ. sewell.
Hath given hostages to fortune" Bacon "Hs
Gods image cutin ebon," Thomas Fuller "Wise
| and mastery inactivity" Macintosh, in 1871,
though generally attributed to Randolph. "First
in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his
presented to the House of Representatives. De-
cember 1893, prepared by Gen. Henry Lee EMIL
lions for defense, but not one cent for tribute
Charles G, Pincey. "The Almighty dollar" Wash
lngton Irving. ''As good as play" King Charles
when in Parliament, attenting the discussion on
Lord Ross Divorce bill. "Selling bargain is in
Loves Labour Lost. EAST and LOOSE Ibid.
"Pumping man." Otways "yenice Preserved
wrong box Fox's Martyrs. 'To lamm in the
sense of to heal,' King and no King, by Beau
mont and Fletcher. The hackneyed newspaper
| Latin quotation "1empora mutnntur, nos ct
nautantr IN Ills, is not found in any classic or
Latin author. The nearest approach to it was
"Ona,,id naantr, etc., and this is found in Bor-
bonious, German writer of the middle ages.
Smelling of the lamp is to be found in Plu-
| tarch, and is there attributed to Pythias. A
| little bird told me" comes from Ecclesiastes X,
20: For bird of the air shall carry the voice
and that which hath wings shall tell the mat,
! ter
g He that fights and away
May live TO fight another day.
These lines, generally attributed to Hudbras
are really much older. They are to be found in a
book published in 1856. The same idea is how.
ever, expressed in a couplet published in 1912,
| while one of the few fragments of Menander, the
! Greek writer, that have been preserved, EN-.
bodies the same idea in single line. The coupet
in Huabras is:
For those that fly may fight again.
| Which he can never do that's dead
Hell is paved with good intentions" though
| found in johnson and Herbert, was obviously in
their day proEerbial expression. Walter Scott
ascribes tito !" some stern old divine.''
There's good time coming, is al expires
sion used by Sir Walter Scott in % Rob Roy.'' and
has, doubtless, for long time been a familiar
! saying in Scotland.
EfipMH coelo tul'nen, scept,uneqle tyraanis
was a line upon Franklin. written by Turgot, the
Minister of Louis XVI. 1t is, however, merely q
modification of line by Cardinal Polignac
Eripuitque Jooi .tulneen, Pehbogle sagutas
which in turn was taken from line of Marcus
Manillus, who says of Epcurus, Ei'iputque jon
fHt'aen Uiresque Iondnti
| Foc p0pult, cor Del. The origin of this famil
lar phrase is not known, but it is quoted as pro
verb by William of Malmsbury, who lived il
the early part of the twelfth century.
Uh5"ad ratio regto1. This motto was engraved
on the French cannon by order of Louis XIV
| Things not Generally Hno,cn.