4.
The Gasconade:
"I believe you, Sir! but you will excuse my repeating it on account of my provincial accent."
5.
Pasquil on Pope Urban, who had employed a committee to rip up the old errors of his predecessors.
Some one placed a pair of spurs on the heels of the statue of St. Peter, and a label from the opposite statue of St. Paul, on the same bridge;
St. Paul. "Whither then are you bound?"
St. Peter. "I apprehend danger here;- they'll soon call me in question for denying my Master."
St. Paul. "Nay, then, I had better be off too; for they'll question me for having persecuted the Christians, before my conversion."
6.
Speaking of the small German potentates, I dictated the phrase,
officious for equivalents.