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31pacchionian — Attributed to or described by Antonio Pacchioni (1665–1726). * * * pac·chi·o·ni·an (pah″ke oґne ən) named for Antonio Pacchioni, Italian anatomist, 1665–1726 …
32pacinian — Attributed to or described by Pacini. * * * pa·cin·i·an (pə sinґe ən) named for Filippo Pacini …
33madness — Attributed to a demonic power seizing possession of a personality, notably of Saul (1 Sam. 16:14–17), whose ‘evil spirit from the Lord’ may have been a form of manic depression. Young David was his therapist, and music the instrument of calm. In… …
34ascribed to him — attributed to him, imputed to him …
35imputed — Attributed or charged to a person, not as the one who personally perpetrated the wrong or created the situation from which injury has resulted, but as one who, because of his relationship to another person, is responsible for the acts or… …
36let the cobbler stick to his last — Attributed to the Greek painter Apelles (4th cent. BC): see quot. 1721. The ‘shoemaker’ variant is a long standing one in British proverb lore, but is now mainly North American. A last is a wooden or metal model on which a shoemaker fashions… …
37dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, pigs is equal — Attributed to Winston Churchill (1874–1965): ‘I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals’ (in M. Gilbert Never Despair (1988) 304). 1980 Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA) 10 Jan 20 Geraldine, a… …
38eat to live, not live to eat — Attributed to SOCRATES (See Diogenes Laertius Socrates II. xxxiv.) ἔλεγέ τε τοὺς μὲν ἄλλους ἀνθρώπους ζῆν ἵν ̓ἐσθίοιεν· αὐτὸς δὲ ἐσθίειν ἵνα ζῴη, and he said that other men live to eat, but he eats to live. Cf. CICERO Rhetoricorum IV. vii. edere… …
39the English are a nation of shopkeepers — Attributed to Napoleon in B. E. O’Meara Napoleon in Exile (1822) I. 103 L’Angleterre est une nation de boutiquiers. The concept of the shopkeeping nation is however earlier: 1766 J. TUCKER Letter from Merchant 46 A Shop keeper will never get the… …
40the more laws, the more thieves and bandits — Attributed to Lao Tzu (c 604 c 531 BC): The more laws and orders are made prominent, The more thieves and bandits there will be (Tao te Ching lvii. in Wing Tsit Chan (ed.) Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963), 166. Cf. ARCESILAUS (3rd cent.… …
