
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 42
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Attributed to Karl Marx, a composer with the same name.
Misattributed
Though sometimes attributed to Addison, this actually comes from a speech delivered by the Irish lawyer Charles Phillips in 1817, in the case of O'Mullan v. M'Korkill, published in Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators (1834) pp. 91-92.
Misattributed
“You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.”
(Autumn 1792) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 380]
“Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.”
Source: Lady Daisy
“Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.”