A solicitor, after hearing Lord Westbury’s opinion, ventured to say that he had turned the matter over in his mind, and thought that something might be said on the other side; to which he replied, “Then sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind.”—Nash: Life of Lord Westbury, vol. ii. 292.
A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock’s—“One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom.”—Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473.
The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with our Wodden Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens.—Preface to the English translation of Linschoten (London).
