Why placed there it is difficult to conceive,
unless to show that death had made the prelate and the robber equals.
W.C.
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BODY AND SOUL.
(_FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN._)
The sacred writers to express the whole,
Name but a part, and call the man a _soul_.
We frame our speech upon a different plan,
And say "some_body_," when we mean a man.
No_body_ heeds what every_body_ says,
And yet how sad the secret it betrays!
RUFUS.
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"_Laissez faire, laissez passer._"--I think your correspondent "A MAN
IN A GARRET" (No. 19. p. 308.) is not warranted in stating that M. de
Gournay was the author of the above axiom of political economy. Last
session Lord J. Russell related an anecdote in the House of Commons
which referred the phrase to an earlier date. In the _Times_ of the
2nd of April, 1849, his Lordship is reported to have said, on the
preceding day, in a debate on the Rate-in-Aid Bill, that Colbert, with
the intention of fostering the manufactures of France, established
regulations which limited the webs woven in looms to a particular
size. He also prohibited the introduction of foreign manufactures
into France. The French vine-growers, finding that under this system
they could no longer exchange their wine for foreign goods, began to
grumble.
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