Show PHRASES YOU HEAR expressions 0 of noted men that lave have become common while theres life there hope now new brooms weep clean and many other old favorite mark historic epochs epoch london no less lees a person than cicero first made use of the expression ti while theres life ille la in a letter he wrote to atticus Attl cus WO we are la in the same boat la is not modern slang clang but occurs in a letter latter written by clement I 1 bishop of rome to the church of corinth in the first century this letter to Is extant and to Is one of tho the prized documents of the early arly church 1 I never put off till tomorrow what I 1 can an do today was lord chester cheater fields fjeldo explanation of how he managed to do so much work whatever to la worth doing at all Is 1 8 worth doing well he wrote later in the famous letters to hi ills a son in some of the expressions we use habitually may bo be crystallized an epoch of history such Is the motto of the order of the garter honi soft qui nial mal y pense shamed bo be he be who thinks evil of it which was waa given by edward III of england wishing to draw the best soldiers in the world to him lie he proposed a revival of the round table of king arthur holding a tournament at windsor castlo castle on new years day 1344 after the contest of arms the guests were entertained at his expense at a round table philip king of france was jealous over the interest this aroused and forbade his subjects to attend at tho the same earne time misrepresenting edwards motives several years later when edward founded the order of the garter he chose a motto that seemed to challenge his rival monarch to think wrong of it it he dared later english history has not been laggard in increasing the supply of apt remarks that have grown lato into everyday sayings lord eldon lord chancellor of england during the first 26 years of the nineteenth century continually mispronounced mispronounce ed the name of henry brougham afterward to be a successor to the chancellors office brougham objected to being called Brof fam and in this regard eldon was the chief offender once after brougham bad made an excellent speech eldon by way of apology pronounced noun ced his name correctly and made a proverb new brooms sweep clean the same expression occurs frequently to different people who could have no knowledge that their thought had been given utterance before no man Is a hero to hla his valet has been paraphrased by scores from madame du corneel Cor nuel a witty frenchwoman of the seventeenth century to dr johnson and napoleon the first record GREAT SOLDIER MADE A SCAPEGOAT UL v N 4 AA this to la a now new photograph of general commander ln in chief of the bulgarian army and his beautiful and charming daughter after having accomplished the difficult task of 0 driving the turks froni from europe back to asia this modern napoleon la Is blamed tor for the present unlooked for losses of the bulgarians Bulga rians and disgraced and discredited may be court tor for the defeat of the army which but a little while ago he led to such euch wonderful success of it however la Is found in plutarch who states that when hermo dot dotus u a addressed a poem to Antig onue I 1 king of sparta balling bailing him as son eon of the sun eun and a god the monarch replied my body servant sings me no such song it was diogenes Dlo genea genes the cynic rhode who declared that habit to is second nature the phrase circumstances over which he has no control was used by the i duke of wellington in a letter concerning some affairs in which he be declined to interfere dickens also used the expression a few years later when he had write to david copperfield circumstances beyond by IndiA individual dual control etc conspicuous by their absence has been used on many occasions in mod I 1 ern era oratory it was first used by tacitus in relating that in the funeral procession of julia niece of cato slator slater of brutus wife of cassius CaBs lus many of the images of the most famous families tir rome were seen but cab caa alus and brutus shone preeminent because their images were not displayed those who live in glave glaab houses should not throw stones was waft said by james 1 I of england when lite his favorite the duke of buckingham complained that a mob had broken his bis glass windows which were at that time a luxury mind your Ps pa and Qs qa Is said bald to have been taken from an old french phrase at the time of louis XIV |