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Let them call it mischief; Ben Jonson.Catiline, Act III. Scene 3. [Resolution is the name given to successful treason and rebellion. Rileys Class. Dict. 348; hence the English Epigram Treason does never prosper: whats the reason? Sir Thos. Harrington.] TREAT.No, Ill stand treat; for it would be a shame that, on my account, you both should take trouble for me, and by reason of that trouble you should pay the expense. Rileys Plautus.The Bacchides, Act I. Scene 2. Page 158. TREE.The tree of deepest root is found Mrs. Thrale (afterwards Mrs. Piozzi).See Boswells Johnson. 1766. From a poem entitled The Three Warnings. Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees. Pope.Moral Essays, Epi. IV. To Burlington, Line 120. If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. Ecclesiastes, Chap. XI. Verse 3. TREE.That is meant as to the general state of the tree, not what is the effect of a sudden blast. The expression refers to condition, and not to position. Boswells Johnson, 1782. |
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