“He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.”
Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 24
Floyd Dell quotes
“He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.”
Source: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1853), Ch. 24
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
A further quote sometimes purported to be from a speech to Congress, January 7, 1790 purportedly in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790, this is actually a corruption of a statement made in his first State of the Union Address, relating to the need for maintaining governmental troops and military preparedness:
:: A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
The proper establishment of the troops which may be deemed indispensable will be entitled to mature consideration. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy.
Misattributed, Spurious attributions
King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)