Footnotes
[304:3] Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: "The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples."
[304:4] Henry Fielding: Tom Jones, book xi. chap. ii. Horace Walpole: Advertisement to Letter to Sir Horace Mann. Macaulay: History of England, vol. i. chap. i.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
Pope: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 331.
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GEORGE FARQUHAR. 1678-1707.
Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?
Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.
The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. 1.
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
The Beaux' Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 1.
'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.[305:1]
The Beaux' Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Necessity, the mother of invention.[305:2]
The Twin Rivals. Act i.