FOOTNOTES:
[2] “The stocks have got wind of this secret,” said Horace Walpole, “and their heart is fallen into their breeches, where the heart of the stocks is apt to lie.”
[3] Sir Thomas Halifax had not a high reputation for liberality. During a severe winter, when requested to join his neighbours in a subscription for the poor, and told that “he who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord,” he replied, “He did not lend on such slight security”; and it is curious, that, when he afterwards applied to a rich neighbour for assistance, a similar reply, couched in similar language, was given to his application.