The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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13 subjects in this part of Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations.

Name

Name: Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak That once familiar word.

Nature

Nature: My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!

Necessity

Necessity: Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

Neglect

Neglect: A wise and salutary neglect.

News

News: There is nothing new except what is forgotten. MADEMOISELLE BERTIN (Milliner to Marie Antoinette.) It is good news, worthy of all…

Night

Night: Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven. That from the East glad message brings : Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in…

Nobility

Nobility: Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble…

November

November: O. Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made?

Novelty

Novelty: Est natura hominum novitatis avida. Human nature is fond of novelty. PLINY the Elder-Historia Naturalis. XII. 5. 3. O.

Natus Heine

Natus Heine: MILLER, WILLIAM, Laureate of the 66 Nursery," poet...... SCOTLAND, 1810-1872 32 MILMAN, REV. HENRY HART, poet and ENGLAND…

Nairne, Lady Caroline Oliphant

Nairne, Lady Caroline Oliphant: poet.......... SCOTLAND, 1766-1845 204 268 562 657 NAPIER, SIR W. F. P., general and historian.... IRELAND…

Necker, Madame Susanne Curchod

Necker, Madame Susanne Curchod: leader in literary circles, SWITZERLAND, 1739-1794 NEIDHART VON NEUENTHAL, "Nithen" or "Nithart,"…

Norris, John

Norris, John: 1657-1711 329 "NORTH, CHRISTOPHER" See WILSON,

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