1763-1820.
It was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.
MISCELLANEOUS.
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church."
"Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis
Christianorum." Tertullian Apologet., c. 50.
"Corporations have no souls."
"They (Corporations) cannot commit trespass nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls."—Lord Coke's Reports Part x. p. 32.
"A Rowland for an Oliver."
"These were two of the most famous in the list of Charlemagne's twelve peers; and their exploits are rendered so ridiculously and equally extravagant by the old romancers that from thence arose that saying among our plain and sensible ancestors of giving one a 'Rowland for his
Oliver,' to signify the matching one incredible lie with another."—Warburton.
"It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster."—Butler's Dyet's Dry Dinner, 1599.
"Hobson's Choice."
"Tobias Hobson was the first man in England that let out hackney horses.—When a man came for a horse he was led into the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the horse which stood next to the stable door; so that every customer was alike well served according to his chance, from whence it became a proverb when what ought to be your election was forced upon you, to say 'Hobson's
Choice.'"—Spectator, No. 509.