The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-06-30
Origin OF some Popular Sayings.

Almost every one has III band 4 store
Ct trite apPosItc sentences, using them
daily, bat having 10 kno y ledge Of their
authorship; and as men are apt 70 be
curious cote ming the habits AID laws
tha. they f.iow OF are governed by.
tracing their r.gIu back into the dim.
ne=s of long-slumbering centuries. so
tlcy are often possessed with desire
70 know who first framed these words
into sentences 40 familiar u them As
they have not all the time II devote 10
such labor. the following have been
strung together By one whose nature
leads him 20 ramb!e among books for
his SOULS best amusement
|: was Thomas i. kepipis who in the
fifteenth century gave Us, Man prcpo-
ses and Col disposss, and the equally
we'll known saying, OF two evils tile
less IS to be chosen, the original Of of
two evils Choose the least. Thomas
Tusser, a writer of the sixteenth centu-
~. gave Better late than never, AMI
the key for four other common phrases
in For CHRISTMAS comes bat once "a
year It's an i'll wind that turns none
~ GB+l, tt 5tFIst kisAt - ltfIAlffS LbIl
gather 10 moss. Look ere thou leap,
sec ere thou go Il was Francis Rabel-
ais, French wit OF the satar century
xho said that by 'Kobhing Peter 10 pay
Paul, and told that when
'The devil wss sick. the devil a monk would be,
fi4e devil s7I well. the dosii . monk was he.
Il was also in the sixteenth CENTURY
that Sir Edward Coke, "A celebrated
English lawyer said: For mans house
il .is castle and Lord Brook sung,
And ont Of mind "a soon a. out of
sight II was Christopher Marlowe,
thc forerunDer Of Shakespeare. and
the father of the grand old English
drama who sang to the ladies', Love
me little. love me long, and told OF
Infinite riches ia little room.'
We owe 10 the prolific genius of
Shakespeare. This Is the long and short
of it
THE worlds mine oyster. 'Compar-
lsous are odious.' As merry as the day
) long, y Daniel come To Judgment.
1. ls wise father that knows his own
ehi!d, Aud thereby hangs tale. lie
needs must go that the devil drives.
:" Iy this = yery midsummer madness,
IA 5unltt-t WaT;a will turn wdcn
trai :.u ou. '.Ntuoo.h ruus tuo water
Rhsre The brook Is deep. 80 wise ~
youag they sly do no'ef live long The
lseakc,t goes 10 the wall We have
seen better days, This was the most
unk,ndest cat of an.' Stand not upon
the order Of Your going. \ deed with
out a name, 'Ffailty. thy name - wo-
man. j am = uan more SHINE against
than SHINING. They laugh that win,
aud thousand more as good. though
not good.
Frauci. Bacon. the 'wisest. greatest.
au-. lucanest OF mankind. said knowl-
edge is power. and Beaumont and
Fletcher pronounced that What's one
mans poison. sisuor, i anothci's meat
or drink Milton tells of Moping
myIaFchely and mooustruck madness.
aud at.o of y wilderness Of sweets,
All hell broke l0osc, and The para
disc Of fools
Samuel Butler. author Of 'Hudibras.
Dubbed religious creed thus: fwas
Presbyterian true blue Dryden says.
None bat the brave deserve the fair
and Sweet is pleasure after pain. He
also narns thus: beware the fury of a
patient man. All drlays are danger
ous IN war and thinks that Men are
but children Of Il larger growth Tho
Ear. of koscummou has il that one must
'Cho0>e an author aS you eiloosc u
friend. and says that The multitude
are always III the wrong john Bun
yam wisely reminds ~ That lie that is
down needs fear no fail. and Thomas
+ Southcrnc. That pity's akin Ia love.
II was crazy Nathaniel Lee who averred
: that " hen Greeks joined Greeks then
WAS the iug of war
Mathew Prior thought The end must
Justify the means and Dean Swift said
Bread IL the stall Of life. George
Fsrquhnr called Necessity the mother
of iuyeuiioa. Edward Young, very
saml,fe fellow. said 'Dcath loves a
ssiuiug mark, he also thought that
Mar wants but little. nor that little
long. aud that A fool a forty is fool
indeed hc also told a; tired uatrrc's
sweet reato.gr. halmy sleep; Pope
S.ys. I err i human, Ia forgive di-
vine, and rhom} sou tells II 'Cru,l as
death. aui hungry as ,hc grave. Il
Was john Gray who said Where
there's life, there's hope aud Of
over the hills ana far away Law
reucc Sternc thought that God ten
pets. tho wind 60 the shora lamh. and
Benjamin Franklin that God helps
them who help themselves Cowpr:
,agl that variety Is the spice ot life,
Thomas Campbell that fs distance
lend. enehantmelt to ,he view he
a(sa ssid. And coming events ca;
,heir zhaiows before, paniel Web
sjer told Of Sea of uptnrard faces.
a..d Washington Irving thought ouT
III, was the mighty 6olia' Byron
AVS that war presents Battles mag
uiiieru,ly stera array. aud Keats
hat y thing a beauty Is juy for
ever. aul last II VAS Bishop Bet Kelley.
sn English p9v.Atc, ~l4o la the seven
ttc.th ceutury SAID. Westward the
course II Empire ;a&o- rs way.
a Reaching Revenge.
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