Note 342 — MISCELLANEOUS RECOLLECTIONS A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER BEGUN IN 1826
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Dr. Parr was well aware of the characteristic caution of the head of our college, and of the college itself. “When I leave my card at the Deanery,” said he, “I shall write on it,
“Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua”;
and, speaking of the whole society, he often said, “Litus amant.” It must be owned that the fate of the little Phalaris* bark, which they launched at the close of the preceding century, was enough to deter them from a second venture. It was prudent to lay up their great vessels if they had any in ordinary.—V.H.
[* The Epistles of Phalaris, said to have been written by Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily. The scholars of Christ Church determined at the end of the seventeenth century to publish a new edition of these letters, upholding their genuineness, and entrusted the task to Charles Boyle, afterwards fourth Earl of Orrery. His work was attacked by Richard Bentley, who proved conclusively the weakness of the case.]