A COLLECTION OF

PASSAGES, PHRASES, AND PROVERBS

TRACED TO THEIR SOURCES IN

ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE.

BY JOHN BARTLETT.

"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the

thread that binds them is mine own."

NINTH EDITION.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1903.

Copyright, 1875, 1883, 1891, 1903,
By John BARTLETT.

UNIversity Press:
John Wilson AND SoN, CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A.

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THE MEMORY OF THE LATE ASSISTANT EDITOR,

REZIN A. WIGHT.

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