In a bill for pulling down the old Newgate in Dublin, and rebuilding it on the same spot, it was enacted, that the prisoners should remain in the old jail till the new one was completed.
CLASSICAL BULL. MILTON.
The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
ANOTHER. SHAKSPEARE.
I will strive with things impossible,
Yea, get the better of them.
ANOTHER. DR. JOHNSON.
Turn from the glittering bribe your scornful eye,
Nor sell for gold what gold can never buy.
CLASSICAL BULL. DR. JOHNSON.
Every monumental inscription should be in Latin; for that being a dead language, it will always live.