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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Inactivity |
| The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. Sir James Mackintosh.—Defence of the French Revolution, Sect. I. Page 23. | 1 |
| With skilled negligence. Vaughan.—To St. Mary Magdalene, Line 19. | 2 |
| The frivolous work of polished idleness. Mackintosh.—Dissert. on Ethical Philosophy. (Remarks on Thomas Brown.) | 3 |
| Disciplined inaction. Mackintosh.—Causes of the Revolution of 1688, Chap. VII. | 4 |
| Or doing nothing with a deal of skill. Cowper.—Table Talk, Line 194. | 5 |
| Pangs without birth, and fruitless industry. Dryden.—Mac Flecknoe, Line 148. | 6 |
| To fight and terrify them if they made slow haste. Holland’s Livy.—Page 922. | 7 |
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