Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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So over violent, or over civil,

That every man with him was God or Devil.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 557.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.[268:5]

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 645.

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense

Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 868.

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Beware the fury of a patient man.[269:1]