"Textually" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... phrase, though Biblical, of course, in spirit, is not, so far as I remember, anywhere found textually in Holy Writ. It may be patristic; in which case I shall be glad of learned information. It sounds rather like St. Augustine. But I do not think it occurs earlier in French, and the word impossibilite is not ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury |
