Nation of shopkeepers. From an oration purporting to have been delivered by Samuel Adams And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation. Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers. -BER- New departure. This new page opened in the book of our public expenditures, and this new departure taken, which leads into the bottomless gulf of civil pensions and family gratuities.-T. H. BENTON: Speech in the U. §. Senate against a grant to President Harrison's widow, April, 1841. Nothing succeeds like success. (Rien ne réussit comme le succès. - DUMAS: Ange Pitou, vol. 1. p. 72, 1854.) A French proverb. Orthodoxy is my doxy; Heterodoxy is another man's doxy. "I have heard frequent use," said the late Lord Sandwich, in a debate on the Test Laws, "of the words 'orthodoxy' and 'heterodoxy' but I confess myself at a loss to know precisely what they mean." "Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, "orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy."PRIESTLEY: Memoirs, vol. 1. p. 572. Paradise of fools; Fool's paradise. The earliest instance of this expression is found in William Bullein's "Dialogue," p. 28 (1573). It is used by Shakespeare, Middleton, Milton, Pope, Fielding, Crabbe, and others. Paying through the nose. Grimm says that Odin had a poll-tax which was called in Sweden a nose-tax; it was a penny per nose, or poll. - Deutsche Rechts Alter thümer. Public trusts. ་ It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices The phrase, "public office is a public trust," has of late become common property. - CHARLES SUMNER (May 31, 1872). The appointing power of the pope is treated as a public trust. CRAPO (1881). - W. W. The public offices are a public trust. - DORMAN B. EATON (1881). Public office is a public trust. — ABRAM S. HEWITT (1883). He who regards office as a public trust. - DANIEL S. LAMONT (1884). Rather your room as your company. Marriage of Wit and Wisdom (circa 1570). Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. From an inscription on the cannon near which the ashes of President John Bradshaw were lodged, on the top of a high hill near Martha Bay in Jamaica. - STILES: History of the Three Judges of King Charles I. This supposititious epitaph was found among the papers of Mr. Jefferson, and in his handwriting. It was supposed to be one of Dr. Franklin's spirit-stirring inspirations. — RANDALL: Life of Jefferson, vol. iii. p. 585. Rest and be thankful. An inscription on a stone seat on the top of one of the Highlands in Scotland. It is also the title of one of Wordsworth's poems. Rowland for an Oliver. These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve peers; and their exploits are rendered so ridiculously and equally extravagant by the old romancers, that from thence arose that saying amongst our plain and sensible ancestors of giving one a "Rowland for his Oliver," to signify the matching one incredible lie with another. THOMAS WARBURTON. Sardonic smile. The island of Sardinia, consisting chiefly of marshes and mountains, has from the earliest period to the present been cursed with a noxious air, an ill-cultivated soil, and a scanty population. The convulsions produced by its poisonous plants gave rise to the expression of sardonic smile, which is as old as Homer (Odyssey, xx. 302).— Mahon: History of England, vol. i. p. 287. The explanation given by Mahon of the meaning of "sardonic smile" is to be sure the traditional one, and was believed in by the late classical writers. But in the Homeric passage referred to, the word is "sardanion" (σapdáviov), not "sardonion." There is no evidence that Sardinia was known to the composers of what we call Homer. It looks as though the word was to be connected with the verb caipa, "show the teeth;" "grin like a dog;" hence that the "sardonic smile was a grim laugh."-M. H. MORgan. 66 Sister Anne, do you see any one coming? The anxious question of one of the wives of Bluebeard. Stone-wall Jackson. This saying took its rise from the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. Said General Bernard E. Bee, "See, there is Jackson, standing like a stone-wall." The King is dead! Long live the King! The death of Louis XIV. was announced by the captain of the body. guard from a window of the state apartment. Raising his truncheon above his head, he broke it in the centre, and throwing the pieces among the crowd, exclaimed in a loud voice, "Le Roi est mort!' Then seizing another staff, he flourished it in the air as he shouted, "Vive le Roi!"- PARDOE: Life of Louis XIV., vol. iii. p. 457. The woods are full of them! Alexander Wilson, in the Preface to his "American Ornithology" (1808), quotes these words, and relates the story of a boy who had been gathering flowers. On bringing them to his mother, he said: "Look, my dear ma! What beautiful flowers I have found growing in our place! Why, all the woods are full of them!" Thin red line. The Russians dashed on towards that thin red-line streak tipped with a line of steel. - RUSSELL: The British Expedition to the Crimes (revised edition), p. 187. Soon the men of the column began to see that though the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact. -KINGLAKE: Invasion of the Crimea, vol. iii. p. 455. The spruce beauty of the slender red line. — Ibid. (sixth edition), vol. iii. p. 248. What you are pleased to call your mind. A solicitor, after hearing Lord Westbury's opinion, ventured to say that he had turned the matter over in his mind, and thought that something might be said on the other side; to which he replied, "Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind." — NASH: Life of Lord Westbury, vol. ii. 292. When in doubt, win the trick. HOYLE: Twenty-four Rules for Learners, Rule 12. Wisdom of many and the wit of one. A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock's, "One man's wit, and all men's wisdom." Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473. Wooden walls of England. - The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with our Wodden But me no buts. FIELDING: Rape upon Rape, act ii. sc. 2. AARON HILL: Snake in the Grass, sc. 1. Cause me no causes. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act i. sc. 3. Clerk me no clerks. SCOTT Ivanhoe, chap. xx. Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes! TENNYSON: Idylls of the King. Elaine. End me no ends. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1. Fool me no fools. BULWER: Last Days of Pompeii, book iii. chap. vi. Front me no fronts. FORD: The Lady's Trial, act ii. sc. 1. Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. SHAKESPEARE: Richard II., act ii. sc. 3. Madam me no madam. DRYDEN: The Wild Gallant, act ii. sc. 2. Map me no maps. FIELDING: Rape upon Rape, act i. sc. 5. Midas me no Midas. DRYDEN: The Wild Gallant, act ii. sc. 1. O me no O's. BEN JONSON: The Case is Altered, act v. sc. 1. Parish me no parishes. PEELE: The Old Wives' Tale. Petition me no petitions. FIELDING: Tom Thumb, act i. sc. 2. Play me no plays. FOOTE: The Knight, act ii. Plot me no plots. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: The Knight of the Burning Festle, act ii. sc. 5. Thank me no thanks, nor proud me no prouds. SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 5. Virgin me no virgins. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act iii. sc. 2. Vow me no vows. 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