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

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For of the most High cometh healing.

Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 2.

Whose talk is of bullocks.

Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25.

These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.

Ecclesiasticus xliv. 7.

There be of them that have left a name behind them.

Ecclesiasticus xliv. 8.

Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

2 Maccabees xv. 28.