[PW] Re: "All the King's Men" - source of this phrase

[Kevin W. Woodruff]

Jon:
 
>From the nursurey rhyme "Humpty Dumpty"
 
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, 
All the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men, couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again"
 
Prof. Kevin W. Woodruff, M.Div., M.S.I.S.
Library Director/Reference Librarian, Assistant Professor of Bible, Greek, Theological Bibliography and Research
Tennessee Temple University/Temple Baptist Seminary, 1815 Union Ave. 
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37404, United States of America
423/493-4252 (office) 423/698-9447 (home) 423/493-4497 (FAX)
Cierpke at prodigy.net http://pages.prodigy.net/cierpke/woodruff.htm 



----- Original Message ----
From: jon ackroyd <jackroyd at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 12:36:36 PM
Subject: [PW] "All the King's Men" - source of this phrase


W0mbats:  This sounds old to me but I can't find from the WWW where it might
have originated. Was it only from the book ? Something earlier?  Any ideas ?

Thank you

jon ackroyd
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