No 2 son and I were puzzled about the origin of this phrase (various bits of Isaiah). Not in Brewer, so I went to the Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations (2000). No headword for ‘wicked’, none for ‘rest’. The temper of our time, precisely.
No 2 son and I were puzzled about the origin of this phrase (various bits of Isaiah). Not in Brewer, so I went to the Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations (2000). No headword for ‘wicked’, none for ‘rest’. The temper of our time, precisely.
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