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Beaten with his own Staff

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Confuted by one’s own words. An argumentum ad hominem.

“Can High Church bigotry go farther than this? And how well have I since been beaten with mine own staff.”—J. Wesley. (He refers to his excluding Bolzius from “the Lord’s table,” because he had not been canonically baptized.)

 

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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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Bearded Women:
Bearings
Bearnais (Le)
Beasts (Heraldic):
Beastly Drunk
Beat
Beat (To)
Beat (To)
Beat. (French, abattre, to abate.)
Beaten to a Mummy
Beaten with his own Staff
Beating about the Bush
Beating the Bounds
Beati Possidentes
Beatific Vision
Beatrice
Bean
Beau Ideal
Beau Jour beau Retour (A)
Beau Lion (Un)
Beau Monde