Macaulay ("History of England," chap. xii.) gives a saying "often in the mouth of Stephen Rice [afterward Chief Baron of the Exchequer], 'I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement.'"
During good behaviour.
That after the said limitation shall take effect, . . . judge's commissions be made quando se bene gesserit.—Statutes 12 and 13 William III. c. 2, sect. 3.
Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.
Declared by Captain O'Kelley at Epsom, May 3, 1769.—Annals of Sporting, vol. ii. p. 271.
Emerald Isle.
Dr. William Drennan (1754-1820) says this expression was first used in a party song called "Erin, to her own Tune," written in 1795. The song appears to have been anonymous.
Era of good feeling.
The title of an article in the "Boston Centinel," July 12, 1817.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.