Crossword-Solution: APOPHTHEGM 10 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

Hamilton, if we recollect rightly, said that by so many more languages as a man knows, by so many more times is he a man--an apophthegm of but a shallow kind if all he meant to convey was that an Englishman who can speak French is also a Frenchman by virtue of his knowledge of the colloquial.

And Shakespeare fills up his below.” Very antithetical; but quære as to the meaning? The writer, like Pluto, “long puzzled his brain” to find it out, till he was immersed “in a lower deep” by hearing Madame de Staël say, at the table of the late Lord Dillon, “Buonaparte is not a man, but a system.” Inquiry was made in the course of the evening of Sir James Mackintosh as to what the lady meant? He answered, “Mass! I cannot tell.” Madame de Staël repeats this apophthegm in her work on Germany.

Indeed, this apophthegm he seldom repeated since his marriage, except in the company of a very few intimates, to whose secrecy and discretion he could trust.

Readers of adequate culture were invited to exercise their learning and their wit in the conjectural completion of a sentence--no quotation, but an original apophthegm--whereof one word was represented by a blank.

That, depend upon it, is the only way of killing the time, as you said; if we strike at him in other ways we only succeed in making him angry.' 'Another apophthegm,' said Wilfrid, with an attempt at brightness.