'HOMO sum; humani nihil à me alienum puto.'-Terence. 'Believe with Lord Monboddo that man sprang from an ape, or with yon' learned divine that he descends from the angels, he is still-a man.'--Mackenzie, 1781. 'If a company keeps a steam fire engine, the firemen need not be straining themselves all day to squirt over the top of the flagstaff. Let them wash some of their lower storey windows a little.'-Oliver Wendell Holmes. |