10426. Appendix. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	10426
AUTHOR:	Appendix
QUOTATION:	Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.
ATTRIBUTION:	Macaulay (“History of England,” chap. xii.) gives a saying “often in the mouth of Stephen Rice [afterward Chief Baron of the Exchequer], ‘I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement.’”