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

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Can Love be controlled by Advice?[312:3]

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.[312:4]

Siris. Par. 217.

Footnotes

[312:2] See Daniel, page [39].

Westward the star of empire takes its way.—John Quincy Adams: Oration at Plymouth, 1802.

[312:3] Aiken: Vocal Poetry (London, 1810).

[312:4]

Cups

That cheer but not inebriate.