About: Lady Lyttelton is again the chief authority for this expression in its Glynnese use : and her application of it is a constant source of sonorous laughter on the part of the reverend person so often alluded to in this work. The Author conceives it is nothing but an arbitrary substitution of the word 'martyr' for 'slave' in colloquial English: and signifies that overprecise and punctilious attention to anything which is so often called 'being a slave to it'.     Permalink

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