Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 154.
“To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.”
Vol. I, p. 265
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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