BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO

THEIR SOURCE

PASSAGES AND PHRASES
IN COMMON USE.

BY JOHN BARTLETT.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread
that binds them is mine own. - MONTAIGNE.

SIXTH EDITION.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

HARVARD
COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

JOHN BARTLETT,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Cambridge: Presswork by John Wilson and Son.

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REZIN A. WIGHT, Esq.