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

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Footnotes

[458:3] Et majores vestros et posteros cogitate.—Tacitus: Agricola, c. 32. 31.

[458:4] With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.—Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address.

[459:1] See Sidney, page [264].

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DAVID EVERETT.  1769-1813.

You 'd scarce expect one of my age

To speak in public on the stage;

And if I chance to fall below

Demosthenes or Cicero,