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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Quotes by Robert Hall

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Oct. 6, 1759. His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid ali nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
*** Call things by their right names Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.— filed under Wine And Spirits
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