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

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Isaiah xxii. 23.

Whose merchants are princes.

Isaiah xxiii. 8.

A feast of fat things.

Isaiah xxv. 6.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

Isaiah xxviii. 10.

We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.

Isaiah xxviii. 15.

Their strength is to sit still.