Footnotes
[407:1] Boston edition. 1865-1867.
[407:2] In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.—Rochefoucauld: Reflections, xv.
[407:3] Lord Brougham says of Bacon, "He it was who first employed the well-known phrase of 'the wisdom of our ancestors.'"
Sydney Smith: Plymley's Letters, letter v. Lord Eldon: On Sir Samuel Romilly's Bill, 1815. Cicero: De Legibus, ii. 2, 3.
[408:1] See Fielding, page [364].
[408:2] See Goldsmith, page [401].
[408:3] The march of intellect.—Southey: Progress and Prospects of Society, vol. ii. p. 360.
[409:1] Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors (What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect).—Horace: Epistle i. 12, 19.
Mr. Breen, in his "Modern English Literature," says: "This remarkable thought Alison the historian has turned to good account; it occurs so often in his disquisitions that he seems to have made it the staple of all wisdom and the basis of every truth."
[410:1] This expression was tortured to mean that he actually thought the people no better than swine; and the phrase "the swinish multitude" was bruited about in every form of speech and writing, in order to excite popular indignation.
[411:1] See Appendix, page [859].
[411:2] I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.—Patrick Henry: Speech in the Virginia Convention, March, 1775.
[411:3] We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.— Cause of the Present Discontents, vol. i. p. 439.
[412:1] Family vault of "all the Capulets."—Reflections on the Revolution in France, vol. iii. p. 349.
[412:2] When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."—Prior: Life of Burke.
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.—Junius: Letter No. viii. To Sir W. Draper.
[412:3] At the conclusion of one of Mr. Burke's eloquent harangues, Mr. Cruger, finding nothing to add, or perhaps as he thought to add with effect, exclaimed earnestly, in the language of the counting-house, "I say ditto to Mr. Burke! I say ditto to Mr. Burke!"—Prior: Life of Burke, p. 152.
[412:4] See Sir Thomas Browne, page [219].
CHARLES CHURCHILL. 1731-1764.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
The Rosciad. Line 322.
But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel—must feel themselves.[412:5]
The Rosciad. Line 961.
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse,
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;
[[413]]Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,
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Defacing first, then claiming for his own.[413:1]
The Apology. Line 232.
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.
Night. Line 271.
Apt alliteration 's artful aid.
The Prophecy of Famine. Line 86.
There webs were spread of more than common size,
And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
The Prophecy of Famine. Line 327.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
Epistle to William Hogarth. Line 645.
Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
The Author. Line 233.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.[413:2]
The Farewell. Line 27.
Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.[413:3]
The Farewell. Line 38.