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"His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art."
Robert Hall / Apology for the Freedom of the Press.

Apology for the Freedom of the Press.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move."
Robert Hall / Gregory's Life of Hall.

Gregory's Life of Hall.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Call things by their right names. . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
Robert Hall / Gregory's Life of Hall.

Gregory's Life of Hall.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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