The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-02-03
Where Familiar Quotations come
From.

Where Familiar Quotations como
From.
"There is death in the pot is from the
Bible. 2 Kings, iv. 40 'Lovcly and pleas
ant in their lives, and in death they are not
Samuel i. %. ~ man after his own heart, "
l S.muel. xiii -. "Thc apple of his eve
Deut. xix 81. "A still, small voice." l
Kings, xix. IL. Escaped with the skin of
nv teeth" Job, xix. 20. That mine adver-
sary had written a book Job, xxi. 81.
"Spreading himself like green bay tree
Psalm cxxxYii. ,. "Ricbes certainly make
(not take. as it Is often quoted) themselves
wings" Proverbs, xii. ). Heap Goals Of
FIRE upon his head Ibid, XIV. 22. '!No new
thing under the SUM-" EccleSiastes, /. 9. "Of
making my books there is no end" IBID, xii.
II. peace, peace, when there is no peace
(made famous by Patrick Henry,) jeremiah,
viii. IL. "My name is LEGION" Mark V. @
ITO kick against the pricks." Acts, TX. 5.
make virtue Of necessity" Shakspeare's
Two Gentlemen of Verona. '.AlI~is not gold
that glitlers,r Merchant Of Venice 'Screw
your courage to the sticking place." (not
poiut) Macbeth. make assurance doubly
sure Ibid. Hang out vour banners upon
the outward walls" IBID. "keep the word
of promise TO our mot the) ear. but break it
to our hope" Ibid. 'It's an i'll wind turns
no good usually quoted ITS an i'll wind
that blows no good Thos. Tasser. 1850.
christmas comes but once year." Ibid.
"Look ere you leap Ibid, and Look before
you e'er leap HuJl5ras, commonly quoted
"Look before you leap" ..Out of mind as
aoon as out of sight usually quoted ''Out
of sight, out of mind Lore! Brooke. What
Il, Il I.
Milton. ''.Awake, arise, or be forever fallen"
Ibid. Necessity. the tyrants plea" IBID.
The old man eloquent" bid. Peace hath
her Victories IBID Though this may be
play to You, It's death 10 u.s. Roger lEs-
TRANCE, 1904. "All CRY and no wool" (uot
little wool Hu,libras. Count their chick
ems ere (nlt befDre) they are Iatched," IBID.
Through thick and thin DRYDEN. When
Greeks joined Greeks, thcn was the tag of
war usually quoted when Greek meets
Gr-ek, then comes the tCg Of war, Nathan
iel Lee, 1872. '0f two evils have chosen
the least Prior. ''Richarl IS himself
again. Coliey Cibber Classic ground"
Addison. a good hater.' johnson. ''My
name IS NOrval." John Hume, IS0S 81.
no questions and II! tell you no fbs," Gold
smith. ''Not much the worse for wear
(not none the worse-) CowPer. What will
Mrs. Grundy say Thomas Morton. mo
Pent up Utica contracts our power" Jona-
than Sewell.
Hath given hostage to fortune Bacon.
His (God'sl image cut in ebony" Thomas
Fuller. "Wise and mastery inactivity"
Mackntosh, il I79i. though generally at
tributed to John Randolph. First in war.
first in peace, and first in the hearts OF his
feliow-citizens, not c0WHtIymen.l Resolutions
presented 10 the House OF Representatives,
December 1870, prepared By Gen. Henry
Lee. millions for defence, bat not one cent
for tribute Charles c. Plnckney. The
Almighty dollar" Washington Irving. AS
good as a play" King Charles, when in
Parliament attending the discussion OF Lord
Ross dIv0.ce bill. Selling q bargain"
is in Loves Labor Lost. Fast and loose"
Ibid.
Pumping man, Otway's Venice Pre-
served. 60 Snacks.' Pope's Prologue to
Satires. la tie WON box Fox's Martyrs.
TO lam in tie sense OF IL beat. King
and no King" by Beaumont a-i Fletcher.
The hackneged Dewspaper Latin quotation,
'TemPHra Hutantur, nos ct mutamur III
Ills, Is not found in az classic or Latin
author. The nearest approach TO it was
''OraHia mutantUr, &c, aud this is found III
BaIboaius, 4 German writer of the middle
ages
Smelling of the lamp is to be found in
Plutarch, aud is there attributed to Pythias.
"A little bird told me" comes from Eccles-
sstes y. 30: 'For bird of the air shall
carry axe voice, and that which hath wings
shall .ei the matter
II. that Fl ght5 an runs away,
May live to fight another day
These lines, generally attrib ted to Hudi-
IL. L I
found in book, Published liz 1886. The
same idea is, however, expressed in a coupet
published in 1912, while ore of the few
fragments of Menander, the Greek writer,
that have been preserved, embodies the same
idea in single line. The cuuplet in Hudi-
bras is:
For those that fy may fight again.
Which lie never 10 that's slain
"Hell is paved with good intentions"
though found in Johnson and Herbert, was
obviously in that day proversial express
sion. Walter Scott ascribes it to some .!stcrn
old divine
There's good time coming" is an ex-
preston used by Sir Waiter Scott in Rob
Roy, and has doubtless for long time been
a familiar saying in Scotland.
''Eripuit celo tulmen, sceptrumque tyran-
MIS- was a line upon Franklin, written by
Turgot, the Minister of Louis XVI. 1t is,
however, merely a modification of line by
Cardinal Polignac-Eripuitque Jovi fulmen,
,Pheboque sagittas, which in turn was taken
from !ine of Marcus ManiiIius, who says
of Epieurus, Eripuitque Jov iulmen viresque
Tonati.
Vox populi, vox Del. The origin of this
familiar phrase is not known, but it is quoted
AS p,overb by William of Malmesbury, who
lived in the early part of ;he twelfth century
"Ultimo ratio regum" This motto was
engraved on the French cannon by order OF
Louis XIV.
"Ti.istling girls AMI growing hens
AIHays come 10 some bad ends
In one Of the curious Chinese books re-
Gently translated and published in Paris, the
proverb occurs in substantially the same
words. 1t Is an injunction Of the Chinese
priesthood, and . carefully obSs:ved house
hold custom, to kill Immediately every hen
that crows, as a preventive against tbs mis-.
fortune that the circumstance is supposed &c
indicate. The same practice prevails through
many portions of the United States -1Hagl
not generally knOwn.
MAKING Butter WITHOUT CHURSIN3.-D..
Sylvester stated, at late meeting o: the
American Institute Farmers Climb. that he
bad tried the experiment of making butter by
hurylng the cream in the ground. lie pu
the cream in 4 linen bag and that in another
bag to keep 1t clean, which he buried abou
A,Dht i 4 A. r,