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Let us hope that England, having saved herself by her energy, may save Europe by her example. - in his last speech made at the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall [England] Out of light a little profit. [Lat., Ex luce lucellum.] - his description of the Window Tax, suggested by Robert Lowe as matchbox motto due to tax [Light] It is with eloquence as with a flame; it requires fuel to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. - Paraphrase of Tacitus [Eloquence] Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter, perish in its fall. - The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobian [Ruin]
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