A PHRASE ILLUSTRATED.
The custom of giving banquets for men only, and then allowing the banqueters' wives—hungry and thirsty —to look down on the feast from a balcony—this custom may not be very gallant, but i't afforded Lord TVlorsley an opportunity for a -prefty compliment. Lord Morsley, at one of these banquets, looked up at the balcony, glittering with lovely ladies, and exclaimed: "Ah, now I understand the, meaning of the Biblical phrase: 'Thou madest man a little, lower than the angels.' "
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 740, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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82A PHRASE ILLUSTRATED. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 740, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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