CMCharles Macklin

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Charles Macklin

Life dates: 1690 AD — 1797 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1743 AD

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Charles Macklin / quote

02c. 1743 AD

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Charles Macklin / quote