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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]