Footnotes

[312:2] See Daniel, page [39].

Westward the star of empire takes its way.—John Quincy Adams: Oration at Plymouth, 1802.

[312:3] Aiken: Vocal Poetry (London, 1810).

Cups

That cheer but not inebriate.

Cowper: The Task, book iv.

The picture placed the busts between

Adds to the thought much strength;

Wisdom and Wit are little seen,

But Folly 's at full length.

On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.[312:5]