Show I Some Familiar Quotations Grave Judges and others learned in I the law have contributed their quota as the stock of i in duty bound to common popular sayings It is Francis Bacon I who speaks of matters that come home to mens business and bosom who lays I down the axiom that knowledge is power pow-er and who utters that solemn warning I to enamoured Benedicts He that hath a wife and children has given hostage to I fortune We have the high authority I of the renowned Sir Edward Coke for de I I i claring that corporations have nosouls and that a mans house is his castle I The expression An accident borrowed I of an cident is borrowed from Lord Thurlo The greatest happiness to the greatest number occurs in Bentham buis an acknowledged translation from the learned jurist Beccaria Leviathan Hobbs we owe the sage maxim Words are wise mens counters but the money of fools It is John Selden who suggests that by throwing a straw in the air you may see the way of the wind and to his I contemporar Oxensteirn is due the discovery dis-covery With how little wisdom the I world is governed Mackintosh first used the phrase A wise and masterly I inactivity The schoolmaster is abroad is from a speech by Lord Brougham It does not mean that the teacher is abroad in the sense of being I I absent as many seem to interpret the phrase but that he is abroad in the t I sense of being everywhere at work In I I the familiar phrase A delusion a mockery mock-ery and a snare there is a certain Biblical I Bibli-cal ring which has sometimes led to its being quoted as from one or other of the Hebrew prophets the words are in fact I an extract from the judgment of Lord Denham at the trial of OConnell I |