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

10426 Appendix John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:10426
AUTHOR:Appendix
QUOTATION:Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.
ATTRIBUTION:Macaulay (“History of England,” chap. xii.) gives a saying “often in the mouth of Stephen Rice [afterward Chief Baron of the Exchequer], ‘I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement.’”