John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4439 Edmund Burke 1729-1797 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4439 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (1729–1797) |
| QUOTATION: | He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Pitt’s First Speech, Feb. 26, 1781. From Wraxall’s Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342. |
| Note 1. See Sir Thomas Browne, Quotation 12. [back] |