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Rabble . For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers. {Butler.}
Rabble . I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me. - Odi profanum vulgus et arceo {Horace.}
Rabble . The rabble. - Canaille {French.}
Rabble . There is a rabble amongst the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy moves in the same wheel with the others,men in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their follies. {Sir Thomas Browne.}
Rabble . To catch the rabble. - Ad captandum vulgus {}
Race . A friend of the human race. - Amicus humani generis {}
Race . A man belongs to his age and race, even when he acts against them. {Renan.}
Race . Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive. {Ruskin.}
Race . Daring to face all hardships, the human race dashes through every human and divine restraint. - Audax omnia perpeti / Gens humana ruit per {Horace.}
Race . Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race for ever. {Ruskin.}
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