Reference > Quotations > John Bartlett, comp. > Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. > 4869. Sydney Smith
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX · CONCORDANCE INDEX
John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4869
AUTHOR:Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
QUOTATION:To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.
ATTRIBUTION:Lady Holland’s Memoir. Vol. i. p. 265.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX · CONCORDANCE INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com