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

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Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 115.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 116.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 117.

A wise and salutary neglect.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 117.

My vigour relents,—I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 118.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.