/ · 1894 Brewer’s · R · Runs may Read (He that)
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The Bible quotation in Habakkuk ii. 2 is, “Write the vision, and make it plain, that he may run that readeth it.” Cowper says—
“But truths, on which depends our main concern …
Shine by the side of every path we tread
With such a lustre, he that runs may read.”
Tirocinium.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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