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Show TRACED TO BENCH AND BAR Phrsses Tht Hav Become Household House-hold Word Dropped From the Lips of Lawyers. It appear that Judges and lawyer have contributed a liberal hare to the nick of popular sayings, says a writer In the Green Hag. It Ih Frauds Huron who spenk of matters that "come horn to tneu' business and bonom." who lay down th axiom Hint 'knowledge If power" and who titter that solemn warning to cnmorcd benedicts: "lie that hath a wife and children hath riven hostages hos-tages to f trt mi . We have the high authority of Sir Edward Coke for declaring that "corporation "cor-poration bnve no houIs," and that "a Hum's bouse Is his castle." The expression "An accident of nn accident" la borrowed from Lord Thurlow, "The greatest happiness of the greatest number" occur in pent-ham. pent-ham. but as an acknowledged trunslrt lion from the Jurist Heccarla. To Ixvlathnn Mobbed we owe thl maxim: "Words are wise men counter, coun-ter, but the money of fools " It li John Sehlen who suggests thai by throwing a straw Into the air one may ee the way of the wind, and to tt law rotitemporury Oxetistlern la due lhe discovery "With how little wisdom Is I lie world governed." Mackintosh first ued the phrase "h wise and masterly Inactivity." "The schoolmaster Ih abroad" I from a peech by Ixud ltrougham. In the familiar phrase "a delusion, a mockery and a snare" there I certain biblical ring, which has Home-time Home-time led to It being quoted a from one or other of the Hebrew prophet. The word are, In fact, an extract from the Judgment of Ixird Penman at the trial of O'Connetl. o |