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

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It is not linen you 're wearing out,

But human creatures's lives.

Hood: Song of the Shirt.

[493:3] Daniel Webster: Speech, Sept. 30, 1842.

[493:4] Huzzaed out of my seven senses.—Spectator, No. 616, Nov. 5, 1774.

[494:1] Fearful concatenation of circumstances.—Daniel Webster: Argument on the Murder of Captain White, 1830.

Fortuitous combination of circumstances.—Dickens: Our Mutual Friend, vol. ii. chap. vii. (American edition).

[494:2] See Spenser, page [27].

[494:3] See Rowe, page [301].

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