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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. Edmund Waller—Of the Danger His Majesty Escaped. L. 68. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Sttllingfleet) CREDIT Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. Juntos—Affair of the Falkland Islands. Vol. I. Letter XLII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. | author = Pope | work = Moral Essays. Ep. 3. L. 39. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. Daniel Webster—Speech on Hamilton, March , 1831. Vol. I. P. 200. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Yelverton}} under {{sc|Law}}) | topic = | page = 142 }}

{{Hoyt topic|Crime}}
 * 1) CRIME ##

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Non nella pena, . Nel delitto e la infamia. S^ Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. Alfieri—Antigone. I. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ilreo D'un delitto 6 chi'l pensa: a chi 1' ordisce v La pena spetta. The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Alfieri—Antigone. II. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh! ben prowide il cielo, Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia. Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. Alfieri—Oreste. I. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world. E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. | place = Bk. III. L. 870. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A man who has no excuse for crime, is indeed defenceless! Bulwer-Lytton—The Lady of Lyons. Act IV. Sc. 1. Nor all that heralds rake from ,coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. | author = Byron | work = Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'eehafaud. N The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. Corneille—Essex. IV. 3. Quoted by Charlotte Corday in a letter to her father after the murder of Marat. | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. | author = Cowper | work = The Task. | place = Bk. VI. L. 439. | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute. It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. Joseph Fouche. As quoted by himself in his Memoires, original Ed., 1824. Referring to the murder of the Due Enghien. Fouche's sons deny that it originated with thenfather. Quoted by others as "C'est pis qu'un crime," and "C'estoit pire qu'un crime." (See Notes and Queries, Aug. 14, 1915. P. 123. Aug. 28. P. 166) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Every crime destroys more Edens than our own. Hawthorne—Marble Faun. Vol. I. Ch. XXIII. Deprendi miserum est. It is grievous to be caught. Horace—Satires. | place = Bk. I. 2. . A crafty knave needs no broker. Ben Jonson. Quoted in Every Man in his Humour; also in Taylor's London to Ham'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. Ben Jonson—Volpone. Act III. Sc. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur. By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato; Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hie diadema. v Many commit the same crimes with a very ^Hifferent result. One bears a cross for bis crime; another a crown. Juvenal—Satires. XIII. 103. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nam scelus intra se taciturn qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet. For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. Jwwaij—Satires. XIII. 209. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 148 }}