3087. Richard Bentley. 1662-1742. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	3087
AUTHOR:	Richard Bentley (1662–1742)
QUOTATION:	The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms. 1
ATTRIBUTION:	Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).

Note 1.
That fortuitous concourse of atoms.—Review of Sir Robert Peel’s Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270 (1835).

In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms,—a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.—Croker Papers, vol. ii. p. 54. [back]

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