" "Bravo!" whispered Acton; "old Fox is a good sort.

[Footnote 174: "It (difference on the Catholic question) was an evil submitted to by the government, of which Mr. Fox, Lord Grenville, and Lord Grey were members, in the years 1806, 1807, as well as by the governments of Mr. Perceval, Lord Liverpool, and the Duke of Wellington.

Who would not be as silly as Dunbar? As dull as Monmouth, rather than Sir Carr? The cunning courtier should be slighted too, Who with dull knavery makes so much ado; Till the shrewd fool, by thriving too, too fast, Like Æsop's fox becomes a prey at last.

Silver black fox is the rarest fur utilized by man.

See post, under June 9, 1784, where Johnson said 'Fox is my friend.'

Fox was a cant term for a sword of English make.

Moreover, the Stafford Ministry, which headed the war party amongst colonists, fell in 1862, and Sir William Fox, the friend of peace, became Premier.

Then, again, the fox is not a sociable animal.

Mr. Fox's is certainly not an ambition of emolument.

[Footnote 1: Charles Fox and William Pitt were the second sons of the first Lord Holland and the first Lord Chatham, Fox being by some years the older.

Do you not think that, in returning good for evil, this fox was a true Christian, my Princess?" Katharine said: "I lament his destruction.

The silver fox of North America is the only species recorded to have bred in the Zoological Gardens of London; the European fox has never been known to breed in captivity.

"But," said I, "the red fox is only a sign for Indians.

"Madam," he said, "while appreciating your courage, allow me to point out that that fox is now the legal property of the Hunt, and you have no right whatever to deprive us of it.

Fox was often the object of his good-natured satire.

It is not a county either pleasant or easy to ride over, and a Puckeridge fox is surely the most ill-mannered of foxes.

Fox, the martyrologist, was a native.

Fox was the great-great-grandson of that king.

"Fox," he said, is a liberal man; he would always be aut Caesar aut nullus; whenever I have seen him he has been nullus.

Works, ii. 77) wrote on Feb. 21, 1772:'Charles Fox is commenced patriot, and is already attempting to pronounce the words, country, liberty, corruption, &c.; with what success time will discover.'

Smirre Fox, is cunning fox.

Mr. Fox was a brawling gamester, devoid of all attachments but that of ambition, and who treated the mob with flattery and contempt.

The fox is no great talker, but the coyote goes garrulously through the dark in twenty keys at once, gossip, warning, and abuse.

Although it was well known that Fox was the founder of a religious sect which repudiated all war, and all violence, yet even he was accused of "endeavoring to excite the slaves to insurrection and of teaching the negroes to cut their master's throats."

the wicked fox! was all the cry; Out from his house ran every neighbour nigh: The vicar first, and after him the crew, With forks and staves the felon to pursue.