Saturday, December 7, 2002, 2:25:48 PM, David Page wrote:
DP> I have a (printed) copy of "The Enlightments of
DP> Pagett, M.P." in "The One Volume Kipling - Authorized"
DP> published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc in
DP> 1928, and which has a small preface signed by RK. The
DP> quote from Burke is as follows:
DP> "Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make
DP> the field ring with their importunate chink while
DP> thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow
DP> of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray
DP> do not imagine that those who make the noise are the
DP> only inhabitants of the field—that, of course, they
DP> are many in number—or that, after all, they are other
DP> than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though
DP> loud and troublesome insects of the hour."—Burke:
DP> "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
Apart from the punctuation, this is the same as the quotation from
Burke given in Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations' [fifth edition,
pages 373-4]
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Best regards,
E J Thompson mailto:[log in to unmask]
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