[808:10] Said by General Pierre Bosquet of the charge of the Light Brigade at the battle of Balaklava.

[809:1] Euripides: Heracleidæ, 1002.

This may be traced to a response of the Delphic oracle given to Polycrates, as the best means of finding a treasure buried by Xerxes' general, Mardonius, on the field of Platæa. The oracle replied, Πάντα λίθον κίνει, "Turn every stone."—Leutsch and Schneidewin: Corpus Paræmiographorum Græcorum, vol. i. p. 146.

[809:2] This phrase, "Laissez faire, laissez passer!" is attributed to Gournay, Minister of Commerce at Paris, 1751; also to Quesnay, the writer on political economy. It is quoted by Adam Smith in the "Wealth of Nations."

[809:3] Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.—Diodorus Siculus: i. 49, 3.

[809:4] According to the "Contemporary Review," February, 1854, this phrase formed the opening of an address composed in the name of Comte d'Artois by Count Beugnot, and published in the "Moniteur," April 12, 1814.

[809:5] General Sebastiani announced the fall of Warsaw in the Chamber of Deputies, Sept. 16, 1831: "Des lettres que je reçois de Pologne m'annoncent que la tranquillité règne à Varsovie."—Dumas: Mémoires, Second Series, vol. iv. chap. iii.

[809:6] See Ovid, page [707].

They were setting on

Ossa upon Olympus, and upon