PARLIAMENTARY MOTTOES, A.D. 1875.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 291, 18 May 1875, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY MOTTOES, A.D. 1875.

Mr Knight—"Hedraweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument " — {Shakespeare). Mr Buckley—" You can speak well; if your tongue deliver the message of your heart "— {Ford). Mr K. Turnbull—"Mistake me not, I speak but as I find " — {Shakespeare). Mr W. H. Williams—" The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers "—{Shaltcspeare). Mr Buchanan—" Why dost thou not speak, thou art mute as a fish." — {Congreve) Mr W. White—'' Enough to weigh a nation down " —( Cliui chill). Mr Jebson—"The Moor, I know his trumpet! " — {Shakespeare).

Mr W. Tosswill—"Words are like leaves, and when they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found"— {Pope). Mr J. White—" But is this law ? Ay, marry is't; crowner's quest law ! "—{Shakespeare).

Mr Joynt—" But who shall act the honest lawyer? 'Tis a hard part that"—{Suckling).

Mr Fisher—" The fire i' the flint she not till it be struck"— {Shakespeare). Dr Turnbull—"From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth" {Shakespeare). Mr Pilliet—"A thing devised by the enemy "—{Shaltespeare). Mr Westenra—" Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil like bales unopened to the sun" — {Dr Young). Sir J. C. Wilson—"l am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips let no dog bark !" (Shakespeare).

Mr Perry—'' Adepts in the speaking trade keep a cough by them ready made. {Churchill). Mr Hay—" Then he will talk—ye gods—how he will talk !"— {Lee). Mr Higgins—" I wish you could advance your voice a little " — {Ben Jonson). Mr Bluett—" Our armies swore lustily in Flanders, but nothing like this " — {Sterne). Mr Maskell —" 'Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more Sempronius, we'll deserve, it"— {Addison). Mr Parker—" Consider, I am a peer of the realm, and I shall die if 1 don't talk " {Reynolds). Mr Montgomery—" Oh ! what a tangled ' web ' we weave, when first we practice to deceive " — {Scott). Mr Wilson—" On every thorn delightful wisdom grows " — {Dr Young). Mr Potts—" And makes his tongue the midwife of his mind"— {Carey).

Dr Rayner—"Oh! thou art a sweet lipp'd physician !"— (Scot). Mr Gray—" How greatest geniuses oft lie concealed !"— (Flavins).

Mr Webb—" I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, and hurt my brother "—Shakespeare.

Mr Tancred—"ln a troubled sea of passion toss'd " — (Milton). Mr Peacock -" Fantastically bedizened with inconsistent perfections"— (Scott). Mr Andrews—"l see the right, and I approve it too ; condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue"— (Tate). Mr J. N. Tosswiel—"Come, give us a taste of your quality"— (Shakespeare).

Mr Harper—" I make no man's creed but my own " — (Sterne).

Mr Jollie—" I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched " — (Shakespeare). Mr Walker—" He more had pleas'd us, had he pleas'd us less " — (Addison).

Mr Teschmaker—" His comrades' terrors to beguile, grinn'd horribly a ghastly smile " —(Churchill).

Mr Dixon—" Old Homer taught us thus to speak; if 'tis not sense, at least 'tis Greek "— {Prior).