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said , wrote in parables ,, so does the great and would have been greater Ker . It is a sad thing that the author has not vouchsafe d to us the true pronunciation of this ancient name . The cockneys
call it Cut ; in the north they call it Care , but this can onl y be an effect of national habits . Cockneys are proverbial for being a sad mongrel set , and in the north the inhabitants are very prone to be careful . But let us analyze this production , which bids fair to render the name of Ker immortal , and add new lustre to that
of Bellendenus . The first part of it consists of the true meanings of ancient sayings ; the latter , of the hidden sense of nursery rhymes . In some definitions , I think the learned author has fallen into error , and I must beg of him to take my humble corrections in good part .
He took the bull by the horns * One obvious illustration of this phrase the learned author has entirely overlooked . Those who understand how to manage bulls take them by the tail , as the black man does in ' Sandford and Merton . ' The Whigs have been in the habit of managing the bull by tickling his tail and
ears , but got sadly kicked at times . The Duke of Wellington and the Tories tried to take the bull by the horns , but he became so furious , and gave such evident tokens of an inclination to gore , that they took to their heels , and the bull has never been quiet since . ' Ware horns / is his motto .
To put the nose out of joint . This obviously alludes to another portion of the Reform question , yet unexplained between the Chancellor and Earl Grey . Money makes the mare to go . This relates to a late mayoral transaction . The love of money was the cause that obliged Don Key to take his departure from the Treasury precincts . The grey mare is the better horse . Nothing but a quotation h necessary here to show the satirical purpose of the author : —
* Low cunning is an overmatch for any rate of intellect when put off its guard by cajolery / This evidently alludes to ministerial doings . He has too many irons in the fire . Can this be an obscure allusion to equity and politics , debate and intrigue , authorship and patronage , keeping royal consciences , and toasting red herrings ?
The devil take the hindmost . * Said upon an occasion where it was evident that some one must get into a scrape , but number one was the principal concern ; where each had rather that thf scrape should come to the turn of any other than to himself . ' This , surely , needs no comment .
Great cry and little wool . This refers to the pamp hlet of Mr Marchant , ' The Reformed Ministry and Reformed Parliament . The author knows how to ' hit the nail upon the head . '
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780 Preface to the New Bellenden us
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 780, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/34/
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