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

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See Shakespeare, page [59].

[808:2] De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace-Danton: Speech in the Legislative Assembly, 1792.

See Spenser, page [28].

[808:3] This was the answer given in the roll-call of La Tour d'Auvergne's regiment after his death.

[808:4] See Canning, page [464].

[808:5] Les extrêmes se touchent.—Mercier: Tableaux de Paris (1782), vol. iv. title of chap. 348.

[808:6] See Johnson, page [372].

[808:7] See Plutarch, page [726].

[808:8] The reply of Marshal MacMahon, in the trenches before the Malakoff, in the siege of Sebastopol, September, 1855, to the commander-in-chief, who had sent him word to beware of an explosion which might follow the retreat of the Russians.

[808:9] Dulaure (History of Paris, 1863, p. 387) asserts that Louis XIV. interrupted a judge who used the expression, "The king and the state," by saying, "I am the state."