[Ads-l] RES: Adage: It's Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission

[David Daniel]

A simplified version of this, attributed to just about everybody at one time
or another: "It's easier to stay out than to get out." 
DAD

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Assunto: Re: Adage: It's Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission

Poster:       ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Adage: It's Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get
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Excellent. Thanks Stephen.
Garson

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:27 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> Here's the 1685 version from Lord Mordaunt:
>
>
> "But in truth the Cardinal Barbarin, of whom the Dutchess had great
> dependance, and all the other Adherents and Relations of the House of Est=
=C3=A9,
> being every day more and more possessed of the Honor and Interest they we=
re
> like to find in this Alliance, were scandalised at the unreasonable
> obstinacy of the Pope and his Nephew, and did franckly advise the Dutches=
s
> of Modena suddenly to make up and perfect the Marriage; the peace, and
> excuse of the thing being easier to be had after it was done, than any
> present Licence to be obtained for doing it."
>
> From Early English Books Online
> page 428
> Succint genealogies of the noble and ancient houses of Alno or de Alneto,
> Broc of Stephale, Latimer of Duntish, Drayton of Drayton, Mauduit of
> Westminster, Green of Drayton, Vere of Addington, Fitz-Lewes of
> Westhornedon, Howard of Effingham and Mordaunt of Turvey :
> justified by publick records, ancient and extant charters, histories and
> other authentick proofs, and enriched with divers sculptures of tombs,
> images, seals, and other curiosities /
>
> Henry Mordaunt Peterborough, Earl of
>
> [10], 697 pages, [41] pages of plates) : illustrations, coats of arms
> London :
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/
> Stephen Goranson's Home Page - Duke University<
> http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/>
> people.duke.edu
> "Celsus of Pergamum: Locating a Critic of Early Christianity," Ch. 30 in
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