| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Richard Bentley. (1662–1742) |
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| 1 | | It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. |
| Monk’s Life of Bentley. Page 90. |
| 2 | | “Whatever is, is not,” is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like. 1 |
| Declaration of Rights. |
| 3 | | The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. 2 |
| Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692). |
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See Dryden, Quotation 91. [back] | Note 2.
That fortuitous concourse of atoms.—Review of Sir Robert Peel’s Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270 (1835).
In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms,—a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.—Croker Papers, vol. ii. p. 54. [back] |
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