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394 Barère. Fouché. · Morton.

MADAME ROLAND.

1754-1793.

O liberty! liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! (1793.)

BERTRAND BARÈRE. 1755-1841.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.1

Speech in the Convention Nationale. 1792.

JOSEPH FOUCHÉ. 1763-1820.

It is more than a crime, it is a political fault; words which I record because they have been repeated and attributed to others.

Memoirs of Fouché.

THOMAS MORTON. 1764-1838.

What will Mrs. Grundy say?

Speed the Plough. Act i. Sc. 1.

Push on keep moving.

A Cure for the Heartache. Act ii. Sc. 1. Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2.

indeed.

1 L'arbre de la liberté ne croît qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans.

2 Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand.

Ferriar.- Mackintosh,

395

JOHN FERRIAR. 1764-1815.

Illustrations of Sterne.

The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.

Bibliomania. Line 6.

Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in

gold.

Ibid. Line 65.

Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed Of knightly counsel, and heroic deed).

Ibid. Line 121.

How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold
The small, rare volume, black with tarnish'd
gold!
Ibid. Line 137.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. 1765-1832.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Vindicia Gallica.

The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. Ibid.

Disciplined inaction.

Causes of the Revolution of 1688, ch. vii.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on

Thomas Brown.

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His imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art. (Of Burke.) Apology for the Freedom of the Press.

He 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. (Of Kippis.) From Gregory's Life of Hall.

Call things by their right names.

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of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

KOTZEBUE. 1761-1819.

There is another and a better world.

Ibid.

The Stranger. Act i. Sc. I. Trans. by A. Schink,
London. 1799.

SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. 1762-1837.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Sonnet on the Death of Sir Walter Scott.

1 Cf. Cyril Tourneur, ante, p. 145.

Adams. Fackson.

Quincy. 397

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1767-1848.

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe,
For freedom only deals the deadly blow;

Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade,
For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.1
Written in an Album, 1842.

ANDREW JACKSON.

1767-1845.

Our Federal Union: It must be preserved. Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830. Benton's Thirty Years' View. i. 148.

JOSIAH QUINCY.

1772-1864.

If this bill (for the admission of Orleans territory as a State) passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.2

Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. Vol. iv. p. 327. 1 Manus hæc inimica tyrannis

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.

Algernon Sidney.

2 The gentleman (Mr. Quincy) cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.". Henry Clay, Speech, Jan. 8, 1813.

GEORGE CANNING. 1770-1827.

Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

I give thee sixpence ! I will see thee d-d first.

Ibid.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying Three INSIDES.

The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178.

A sudden thought strikes me, — let us swear an eternal friendship.

Ibid. The Rovers. Act i. Sc. I.

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,

Black 's not so black ;

nor white so very white. New Morality, xxxvi.

Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe,

Bold I can meet, — perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can

send,

Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend!

Ibid.

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old.

The King's Message. (Dec. 12, 1826.)

No, here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. The Pilot that weathered the Storm.

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