Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Principle

A precedent embalms a principle.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech on the Expenditures of the Country. Feb. 22, 1848.

I don’t believe in princerple,
But, oh, I du in interest.
Lowell—The Biglow Papers. First Series. No. VI. St. 9.

Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin’ nothin’ o’ the sort.
Lowell—The Biglow Papers. First Series. No. VII. St. 10.