John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
10411 Appendix John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 10411 |
| AUTHOR: | Appendix |
| QUOTATION: | Art and part. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | A Scotch law-phrase,—an accessory before and after the fact. A man is said to be art and part of a crime when he contrives the manner of the deed, and concurs with and encourages those who commit the crime, although he does not put his own hand to the actual execution of it.—Sir Walter Scott: Tales of a Grandfather, chap. xxii. (Execution of Morton.) |