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| Author: | Richard Cole |
| Date: | Monday, 1st Jul 2002 08:46 |
| Views: | 5,110 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Language, Education, Arts and Events | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b18579 |
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Can anyone enlighten me as to the origins of "cometh the hour, cometh the man" - i.e. who said it first is it a direct quote or a misquote of biblical origin ? |
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 | quote and misquote | | Can anyone enlighten me as to the origins of "cometh the hour, cometh the man" - i.e. who said it ... |
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Richard Cole |
01/07/02 08:46 |
18579 |
 | Re: quote and misquote | | Nigel Rees' Cassell Companion to Quotations (Cassell, 1997) has this under Anonymous. Rees' book is excellent for giving background for ... |
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Gary Archer |
05/07/02 10:42 |
18670 |
| | Re: quote and misquote | | definitely a misquote - there are no "hours' in the Bible - now am I answering the question asked? |
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Rita Sanders |
01/07/02 16:05 |
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| | Re: quote and misquote | | I agree with you, Rita, that it is not biblical. But you are incorrect that there are no "hours" in ... |
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J.B. Bryant |
03/07/02 12:46 |
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| | Re: quote and misquote | | Hi
I know this moves away from the "quote" discussion, but the concept of time and hour in the bible is ... |
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Arthur Weiss |
09/07/02 09:15 |
18713 |
| | Re: quote and misquote | | Also a possible explanation is that it derives from a line of dialogue at the end of a Walter Scott ... |
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Tony Gerrard |
01/07/02 11:57 |
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| | Re: quote and misquote | |
Harriet Martineau's biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture was called "The Hour & The Man", written during the 1840s I would guess, ... |
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Sue |
01/07/02 11:47 |
18580 |
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