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He came in there one night utterly desperate and was taken in hand by our people and with us taking in hand is no mere phrase, for at the close of our meetings our officers go from seat to seat, and if they see anyone who shows signs of being affected by the speeches or the singing, at once sit down beside him and begin to labour with him for the salvation of his soul.
"What in natur is that, when it's biled and the skin took off?" asked Mr. Slick. "Why is it possible you don't know that? Have you forgotten that common schoolboy phrase?" "Guess I do know; but it don't tally jist altogether nohow, as it were. Known as a Socialist, isn't it?" "If, Sir," said Mr.
"Of all Bibles, the frightfulest to disbelieve in is this 'Bible of Universal History'" "The Leaders of Industry, if Industry is ever to be led, are virtually the Captains of the World." What new meaning that phrase has acquired in these fifty years! "Men of letters may become a 'chivalry, an actual instead of a virtual Priesthood."
The Reverend Joseph Parker once said to me, "I always begin strong and I end strong, for only your first phrase and your last will be remembered, if remembered at all, by the average listener." Jean Jacques begins strong. The first words of the "Social Contract" are, "Man is born free, but is everywhere enslaved."
One day it was eight or nine years after Alfred's victory over Guthrum and settlement of the kingdom the king and Asser were engaged in conversation in the royal apartments, and Asser quoted some Latin phrase with which, on its being explained, Alfred was very much pleased, and he asked Asser to write it down for him in his book.
This phrase bowled me over, for the proportion thus bluntly stated in figures gave me so logical a conception of his exalted expectations, that I hurried away at once to the director to warn him that the enterprise on which we had embarked would not, after all, prove as easy as we thought. His alarm was great, and he said that some plan must at once be devised for breaking off the engagement.
Above all he is, in some sense, Man, or 'the Second Man' or 'the Son of Man'. The origin of this phrase needs a word of explanation. He is the real, the ultimate, the perfect and eternal Man, of whom all bodily men are feeble copies.
A problem in Euclid or a phrase in Pindar, a secret in astronomy or a knotty passage in the Fathers, were all riddles, with the solution of which application had nothing to do. One's mother-wit was a precious sort of necromancy, which could pierce every mystery at first sight; and all the gifts of knowledge, in his opinion, like reading and writing in that of the sage Dogberry, "came by nature."
She must meet him occasionally, she heard his name every day, and she knew where he was and what he was doing almost at every moment. She treasured every look, every phrase of his, and she glowed and grew beautiful in the conviction that, even though he was still mysteriously angry with her, he had that old consciousness of her presence, too; he might hate her, but he could not ignore her.
In the course of the events which took place in the early part of the year many such expressions were seized on and continually quoted. Among them, and belonging to the second description above referred to, is the phrase 'Stand by Jameson. It was never used in the sense of sending out an armed force to the assistance of Dr.
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