Footnotes

[301:3] See Herbert, page [205].

[303:1] I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.—Seneca: On a Happy Life (L'Estrange's Abstract), chap. i.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.—Ovid: Metamorphoses, xiii.


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SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.  1676-1745.

The balance of power.

Speech, 1741.

Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."[304:1]

Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369.

Anything but history, for history must be false.

Walpoliana. No. 141.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.[304:2]