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a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectual Faith 54 in Breast-plate of Faith (1631) Then When the Holy Ghost hath wrought upon the will, and hath turned that, then a man commeth upon his owne legs, and is moved from an inward principle of his owne.

1675 L. Addison Present State Jews ii. 25 He was certain whosoever lived piously and kept the Law, could not miss of being happy: or arriving the bliss to come upon his own leggs.

1866 Times 14 Mar. 9/5 Under the previous system, the ox, though he came on his own legs to the town, did not come alone, but in charge of a drover, whose services are now dispensed with.

1901 Financial Times 2 Aug. 3/2 The automobile is coming, has come, to stay, but it ought to come on its own legs, and not ask the railway carriage to take it up and carry it when it is tired.

1921 O. M. Salter Martha & Mary ii. v. 258 ‘If I come to your house at all I must come on my own legs,’ he said, enigmatically, and refused to be cajoled. Owen knew it was because he would not sit beneath Mary's charity.