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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."
Apology for the Freedom of the Press.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
Gregory's Life of Hall.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
Gregory's Life of Hall.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain