The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-11
Celebrated sayings.

"Up, guards, and at EN-" men Will
always believe to have been the ex-
clamation of Wellington while they
feel an interest in the story of Waterloo,
in spite of the Dukes protest that he
uttered no such nonsense; and just rs
implicitly will they believe the tallying
statement that the Imperial Guards ut
tered the bravado. "La 9arde meurt,
I. SC reude pas ~ which is purely n
myth, albeit so dramatically introduced
by Victor Hugo in his picture of the
battle in Les Miserables, but inscribed,
too, on the monument ut Nantes. The
last bombastic phrase was q pure in
vention of French journalist two days
after the battle. A less memorable
French mot is the cry of Philip of Vavi-
os, when, flying from the battle of Gre
CIV. he arrived before the closed gates OF
the Castle of Brave, and exclaimed ::
"Ourre., ourrez, c EST la fortune de Ia
France! (Open, open, to the fortunes
of France) Turning to Froissort, the
original author of the anecdote, we find
what 7 Instead of the fine sentiment
last quoted, by which the King embod-
les in himself the stricken fortunes of
his country-only the tame exclama-
ton, "Ourrez, oarre:, c est I untortune
Roi de la France (Open, open; tits the
unfortunate King Of France) Will
any one who knows the intensity of
Frcnchman's love for effects be sur
prised to learn that Chataubriand, hav-
ing misrelated this story in his History
of France, refused, on being informed
of his error, to correct it, Oris it strange,
that, with the same noble scOrn for strict
accuracy and exclusive regard for ar
tistic effect, Voltaire, on being asked
where he found a certain startling fact,
reDli ed, at is frolic of my imagina-
ton ~ For three centuries historians
have delighted to repeat the heroic sem
timcnt expressed by Francis !. while
writing to his mother from the battle
field of Pavia "All is lost but honor
But how runs the real letter which the
King wrote on the occasion, and which
has been preserved? Instead OF the
pithy, epigrammatic communication, as
terse as telegram, which Francis is
said to have dispatched from the battle
field and which so electritics the reader
as the grand outburst of great spirit
in sudden adversely, it turns out that
the French monarch wrote in prison, by
permission, Il long letter, in which, af-
ter describing the battle, he says pro-
saically "With regard to the remaining
details of my misfortune, honor and
life, which is safe, are all that are left
to me-" &C., &c. Hardly less diluted
i'll the original is the sententious dis
patch Henry w. is said to have written
to one of his mobiles after the battle OF
Argues: "Hang thyself, brave Crillion;
we have tonight, and thou vert not
therer When we have learned, too,
that chang myself" was a hackneyed
expression of Henry's, repeated on the
most trivial occasions, the mot sinks
into the veriest common place.
What is more hackneyed than the say
ing attributed to DemOsthenes, that
faction, action, action" that is gesticu-
lation, is the one thing most needful to
an orator, The word he used, which is
translated 'action," is kinesis, the true
Specification of which is agitation, mo-
ton, anything of a stirring character.
Not action, but motion, which, like muir
der, twill out" if deeply felt, was that
Demosthenes held to be so vitality essen
tial-agreeing herein with the we'll
known maxim of Horace, that eff you
wish me to weep, you must first weep
yourself" Again, how often has Cicero
been quoted as having said, 81 would
rather err with Plato than hold the
truth with these philosophers" The
real sentiment of Cicero, 'Errdre meher-
cule malo cam Piatone guam
cum istis reru sentire-which has been so
often applauded by some, and by others
I denounced as an instance of excessive
! and almost idOlatrous reverence for a
giant intcllect-occurs in the "Tuscu-
Ian Questions;" and it is only by the
tgrossest perversion of the language that
it can be construed into such an express
sion OF humiliating general submission
TO the authority of Plato rs it is sup
posed to contain. The immediate point
under discussion, as Prof. Marsh has
shown, was the question of the immor-
tally Of the soul, which was maintained
by Plato, but denied by the Epicureans,
and it is solely with reference to the
conclusion of Plato on this one point,
not to the weight of his authority, that
Cicero prefers to share with him the
beneticent possible error of eternal life,
rather than withlhis opponents the fear
J full and pernicious truth, if it were y
truth. of final humiliation.
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