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

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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.[593:1]

History of England. Vol. i. Chap. i.

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.

History of England. Vol. i. Chap. ii.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.[593:2]

History of England. Vol. i. Chap. iii.

I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Letter to Macvey Napier, Dec. 17, 1830.

To every man upon this earth

Death cometh soon or late;