Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...Dr. Johnson. 29. Let not the mouse-trap smell of blood. 30. Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth. 31. Let not thy expenditure exceed thy income. Plautus. 32. Let nothing vile come into the temple. Latin. 33. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. Shaks. 34. Let the grafts be very good or the knife be where it stood. 35. Let the hoofs go with the hide. 36. Let the horns go with the hide. 37. Let the morn come and the meat with it. 38. Let the plough stand to catch a mouse. 39. Let the shirt next your skin know not what's within. Fr. 40. Let there be food in the pigeon house and the pigeons will come to it. Sp. 41. Let there be writing before you pay, and receipt before you write. Sp. 42. Let things go on as they are going. German Endaemonisen. 43. Let us return to our muttons. Resume the subject of discoursed) 44. Let your letter stay for the post and not the post for the letter. Be always beforehand with your business.) Letter. 1. The written letter remains. Litera seripta manet.) Letters. 1. Letters without virtue are like pearls in a dung-hill. Don Quixote. 622 Liberal.--Liberality.--Liberty. Liberal. 1. Liberal hands make many friends. Dan. Liberality. 1. Liberality is not giving largely but wisely. Liberty. 1. A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison. 2. A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Addison. 3. A libertine's life is not a life of liberty. 4. A wilderness is rich with liberty. Wordsworth. 5. All men love liberty and seem bent on destroying her. Voltaire. 6. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. 7. For liberty, glorious liberty, who'd fear to die. 8. For liberty or glorious death, We gladly yield our latest breath. 9. Give me again my hollow tree, ..