in a speech at Brooklyn, on John Brown, Ist Nov. 1859. See Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons. One tongue is sufficient for a

woman.

JOHN MILTON (1608-74)-when asked whether he would instruct his daughters in foreign languages. Only three Crowns.

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE (16761745) to Queen Caroline, who had asked what would be the cost of inclosing St. James's Park, and making of it a private garden to the Palace. Leslie Stephen (Life of Henry Fawcett, 2nd edit., p. 311) refers to the phrase as mythical. Horace Walpole (Memoirs of George II, vol. ii, p. 62) states that Sir Robert Walpole's reply to Queen Caroline was : 'Only a crown madam." In the Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 1781 (vol. li, p. 75) Sir Robert is said to have replied: “O, a trifle, madam," and, when asked to be more definite, added: Why, madam, I believe the whole will cost you but three crowns. On the first year of freedom, by God's blessing, restored, 1648.

Legend engraved on the new great Seal; on which the House of Commons was represented, ordered to be made by the Commons, after having voted the abolition of the House of Peers and the Monarchy. (HUME, Hist. of Engl.) On the ground.

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70)— Last words, fearing he would fall to the floor.

Open the gates! Open the gates! SARAH WESLEY (1726-1822) wife of Charles Wesley-Last words. Oppression is but another name

for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

WILLIAM PINKNEY (1764-1822) -in a speech on the Missouri Question Feb. 15, 1820.

Orthodoxy is my doxy, hetero

doxy is another man's doxy. BISHOP WARBURTON (1698-1779 -to Lord Sandwich, in a debate in the House of Lords on the Test laws, the latter saying that he did not know precisely what "orthodoxy" and "heterodoxy" meant. (Priestley, Memoirs, vol. i, p. 372). O, that beautiful boy!

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (180382)-Last words.

Our country, right or wrong.

STEPHEN DECATUR (1779-1820), American naval officer-in a toast proposed by him at a dinner at Norfolk, Va., in April 1816 "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong. (Mackenzie Life.) Cf. the remark of J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, "I hope to find my country in the right: however, I will stand by her, right or wrong." Our differences are policies, our

agreements principles.

PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY (1843-1901)-in a speech at Des Moines in 1901.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (1804-81)—in a speech at Salthill, Oct. 5, 1864.

Our Federal Union: it must be preserved.

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845)-Toast at a banquet at Washington, April 30, 1830, the Jefferson Birthday Celebration. (Benton's Thirty Years' View, voli, p. 148.)

Our past has gone into history.

PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKIN LEY, (1843-1901)-in a speech at Memphis, Apr. 30, 1901. See The past, at least, is secure.

Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions.

WENDELL PHILLIPS (1811-84)— in a speech at Boston (Mass.), Dec. 21, 1860.

O, what triumphant truth ! TIMOTHY DWIGHT (1752-1817) -Last words.

O yes! O yes! O yes!

Words used by town-criers, even at the present day, before making their proclamations. A corruption of the old Norman-French word Oyez-Hear!, or listen!

Parliamentary speaking, like playing on the fiddle, requires practice.

BENJAMINE DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (1804-81)-in a speech in the House of Commons, July 13, 1871. Cf. " Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes only by practice." (Ruskin, Seven Lamps of Architecture: Lamp of Truth, I) Party is organised opinion.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (1804-81)-in a speech at Oxford, 25th Nov. 1268.

Peace!

ALDEN BRADFORD (1765-1843) Last words.

Peace, retrenchment and reform,

Watchword of the Liberal party. According to Sir Charles Dilke (Morning Herald, 2nd Aug. 1899) the the above is an emendation, brought about by Joseph Hume, of the old Whig watchword of Peace and Reform.' (Dict. Nat. Biog., vol. xxviii, p. 231). A variant: " Reorm, retrenchment, peace was

used to refer to Earl Grey's ministry on coming into office in 1830. Peace with honour.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI [Lord Beaconsfield] (1804-81)-on his return from the Berlin Congress, July 16, 1878, said: "Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace-but a peace, I hope, with honour, which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country. Cf. "The superior power may offer peace with honour and with safety."-Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. (Works, vol i, p. 455, Bohn's Libraries, ed. 1897).

The phrase is also to be found in Sir Anthony Weldon's Court and Character of King James (London, 1650, p. 185) Cf.

"That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war, since that to both It stands in like request?" (Shakspere, Coriolanus, act iii, sc. ii, ll. 49-51)

The words pax cum honore are in a letter from Theobald, Count of Champagne to Louis le Gros (reigned 1108-37) (Walter Mapes, De Nugis Curialium, Camden Soc. edn. p., 220.) See A safe and honourable peace.

Pity that should be cut, that has not committed treason.

SIR THOMAS MORE (1480-1535) -Last words on the scaffold, putting aside his beard. (Froude's Hist. of Eng., ch. 9). Another version is : "For it never committed treason." (Hume, Hist. of Engl.)

Poetry is only the eloquence and enthusiasm of religion. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770 1850).

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

LORD BYRON (1788-1824)-to

MME. DE STAËL--(Abel Stevens, Life of Mme. de Staël, ch. iv) .. political Cave of Adullam.

JOHN BRIGHT (1811-89)—in a speech on the Reform Bill of 1866. He said that Mr. Horsman had "retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam.” (Reid, Life of W. E. Gladstone, p. 486.) An allusion to the cave Adullam. (Cf. 1 Samuel xxii, 1, 2.) Bishop Wilberforce wrote at the time about Gladstone's new Commandment," which was "Thou shalt not commit Adullamy. (Life of W. E. Gladstone, p. 486, note.) Politics is business.

LORD SALISBURY (b. 1830) Poor little boys!

HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE (182262) Last words.

Poor souls! for a little money they would do as much against their commanders.

CHARLES I (1600-49)—after his sentence, referring to the soldiers, who, instigated by their superiors, were brought to cry aloud for

justice. One soldier, who had asked a blessing on oppressed and fallen majesty, was, in the King's presence, beaten to the ground by his officer. Charles said, "The punishment, methinks, exceeds the offence." (Hume, Hist. of Engl.)

Possible! is anything impossible? Read the newspapers.

DUKE OF WELLINGTON (17691852). (Words of Wellington, 1881 ed., p. 196.)

Posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (1804-81)-in a debate, 3rd June, 1862, on fortifications and works, he accused Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) of seeming to "think that posterity &c." In a speech on the Address, 22nd Jan. 1846, Disraeli, alluding to Sir Robert Peel's appeal to posterity, said (addressing the Speaker) "Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination. presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."

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Praise is the best diet for us, after all.

REV. SYDNEY SMITH (17711845). See (Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith, 1858, p. 434). See Nothing has a better effect upon children than praise. Precious salvation !

JAMES HERVEY (1714-58)—Last words.

Presbytery is no religion for a gentleman.

CHARLES II. (1630-85)—to the Earl of Lauderdale.

Privilege of parliament! priviledge of parliament !

MARQUIS OF NORMANBY (17971863)-in a letter, written when lord lieutenant of Ireland (Earl Mulgrave). Also attributed to Chief Baron Woulfe (1787-1840), and to Thomas Drummond (1797-1840); but cf. "A landlord is not a land merchant; he has duties to perform as well as rents to receive." (Sketch of the state of Ireland, Past and Present, Dublin, 1808 [by Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker]) Cf. "Entendue de la sorte, qu'est-ce que la propriété? C'est le vol. (Viewed in this light, what is property? It is robbery.) (L. Blanc, L'Organisation du Travail.)

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

J. C. CALHOUN (1782-1850)--in a speech, 12th Dec., 1811. Followed by "This is the road that all great nations have trod."

Public office is a public trust.

PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND (b. 1837)-A saying derived from

him. In accepting the nomination to the mayoralty of Buffalo (New York) in 1882 he said, "When we consider that public officials are the trustees of the people, and hold their places and exercise their powers for the benefit of the people, there should be no higher inducement to a faithful and honest discharge of public duty." See Ministers are the trustees of the nation &c.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, for in them there is no salvation. (Psalm 146, v. 3.)

THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD (1593-1641)—on being assured that Charles I. had signed the Bill of Attainder. (Hume, Hist. of Engl.; Dict. of Nat. Biogr., vol. lx. p. 283). See Nolite confidere in principibus &c. Put your trust in God, my boys,

and keep your powder dry. OLIVER CROMWELL (1599-1658) -advice to his troops when crossing a river. (Col. Blacker, Oliver's advice, 1834) Another version is: "Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry." (Hayes's Ballads of Ireland, vol. i, p. 191.) Queens of England are never drowned.

HENRIETTA MARIA (1609-69), wife of Charles I.-in a storm in the North Sea, crossing from Holland to Yorkshire, Feb., 1642. See I never heard of a king being drowned.

Rather than submit to the hard terms proposed by Pitt, I would die in the room I now stand in.

Reaction is the law of life; and

it is the characteristic of the House of Commons.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI [Earl of Beaconsfield] (1804-81)-in the debate on the Address in reply to the Queen's Speech, 6th Feb., 1867. "... Reason thus with life, If I do lose thee I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art." (Shakspere, Measure for Measure, act iii, sc. i, 11. 6-8).

PATERSON (d. 1758)—Last words. He was playing the Duke, and had no sooner uttered the above lines than he expired. They are engraved on his tomb at Bury St. Edmunds, where he was buried.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

PRESIDENT JOHN BRADSHAWfrom an inscription on the cannon near which his ashes were laid, on the top of a hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica. (Ezra Stiles, Hist. of Three of the Judges of King Charles I, p. 107.) "In a public print of 1775, it was said, "The following inscription was made out three years ago on the cannon near which the ashes of President Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a high hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica, to avoid the rage against the regicides exhibited at the Restoration." [The inscription ends as follows:]

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And never, never forget THAT REBELLION TO TYRANTS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD," (ibid. pp. 106-7). Found among the papers of Thomas Jefferson (17431826) and in his handwriting. Supposed to be one of Dr. Franklin's inspirations. (Randall's Life of Jefferson, vol. iii, p. 585.) Cf. : Where justice reigns, 'tis freedom to obey. (J. Montgomery, Greenland, canto iv.), and see L'insurrection est le plus saint des devoirs.

Remember!

CHARLES I(1600-49)-Last words to Bishop Juxon (1582-1663): said to be intended as a message to his son. Another account says that his last words were "I fear not death; death is not terrible to me." See I am not in the least afraid to die. Rescue and retire.

W. E. GLADSTONE (1809-98)— Phrase applied to the policy announced by him in Feb., 1885: to support the Khedive of Egypt in regaining his authority over the Soudan, but without a permanent English occupation of the country. Responsible government.

Phrase first used in 1829 in a petition presented to Parliament from Upper Canada. (Cf. Egerton's History of Colonial Policy, p. 304.) Revolutions are not made, they

come.

WENDELL PHILLIPS (1811-84)— in a speech to the Anti-Slavery Society at Boston (Mass.), 28th Jan. 1852.

Revolutions never go backward.

WENDELL PHILLIPS (1811-84)— in a speech at Boston (Mass.), Feb. 17, 1861. See Insurrection of thought &c.

Rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-84) - when asked what he thought was the value of his friend Thrale's brewery, which was being sold, replied, "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich," &c. (Boswell, Life of Johnson, Fitzgerald's edition, vol. ii., p. 462.)

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

LORD SHAFTESBURY (1671-1713). "It is commonly said, and more