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

If I have done well, and as is fitting, . . . it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.

2 Maccabees xv. 38.

[815:1] See Cowper, page [421].

[816:1] The place thereof shall know it no more.—Psalm ciii. 16.

Usually quoted, "The place that has known him shall know him no more."

[818:1] Of very babes.—Book of Common Prayer.

[818:2] Thou madest him lower than.—Book of Common Prayer.

[818:3] The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground.—Book of Common Prayer.

[818:4] Apple of an eye.—Book of Common Prayer.