DICTIONARY’S USE.
Frequenters of the Canadian House of Commons have often noted Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s use of a large dictionary, which, at a nod the pages bring and carry away. Some have thought that to constant study of the dictionary is due his remarkably effective use of English words. According to the Toronto Weekly Sun, be also refers to the dictionary for apt illustrations and rhetorical suggestion. For example, when closing his speech on the closure resolution, he warned Mr Borden that if he persisted the day would come when the closure might be used against himself, and ended by reciting with great effect Shakespeare’s words:— “This even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice to our own lips.” The quotation is given in Webster’s dictionary under the word “justice.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2678, 11 August 1913, Page 7
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131DICTIONARY’S USE. Dunstan Times, Issue 2678, 11 August 1913, Page 7
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