Familiar Quotations Part 104

THOMAS B. MACAULAY.

_Edinburgh Review, Oct., 1840, on Ranke's History of the Popes_.

She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.

JOHN RANDOLPH.

1773-1833.

_Speeches_, 1828.

A wise and masterly inactivity.

WAs.h.i.+NGTON IRVING.

_The Creole Village_.

The Almighty Dollar.

FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD.

1613-1680.

_Maxim ccxvii_.

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.

JOSEPH FOUCHE.

1763-1820.

It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.

MISCELLANEOUS.

"_The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church_."

"Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; s.e.m.e.n est sanguis Christianorum." _Tertullian_ _Apologet_., c. 50.

"_Corporations have no souls_."

"They (Corporations) cannot commit trespa.s.s nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."--_Lord c.o.ke's Reports_ Part x. p. 32.

"_A 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 among our plain and sensible ancestors of giving one a 'Rowland for his Oliver,' to signify the matching one incredible lie with another."--_Warburton_.

"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster."--_Butler's Dyet's Dry Dinner_, 1599.

"_Hobson's Choice_."

"Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney horses.--When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb when what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say 'Hobson's Choice.'"--_Spectator_, No. 509.

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