Footnotes

[414:2] See Prior, page [287].

[415:3] See Butler, page [213].

The story of a lamp which was supposed to have burned about fifteen hundred years in the sepulchre of Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, is told by Pancirollus and others.

[416:1] La Bruyère.

[417:1] Buckingham: The Rehearsal (the two Kings of Brentford).

[417:2] See Bacon, page [167].

[418:1] Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!—Jeremiah ix. 2.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!—Byron: Childe Harold, canto iv. stanza 177.

[418:2] Servi peregrini, ut primum Galliæ fines penetraverint eodem momento liberi sunt (Foreign slaves, as soon as they come within the limits of Gaul, that moment they are free).—Bodinus: Liber i. c. 5.

Lord Campbell ("Lives of the Chief Justices," vol. ii. p. 418) says that "Lord Mansfield first established the grand doctrine that the air of England is too pure to be breathed by a slave." The words attributed to Lord Mansfield, however, are not found in his judgment. They are in Hargrave's argument, May 14, 1772, where he speaks of England as "a soil whose air is deemed too pure for slaves to breathe in."—Lofft: Reports, p. 2.

[418:3] See Churchill, page [413].

[419:1] See Dryden, page [277].

[419:2] No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety—Pub. Syrus: Maxim 406.

[419:3] He has spent all his life in letting down buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.—Lady Holland's Memoir of Sydney Smith, vol. i. p. 259.

[420:1] See Bishop Berkeley, page [312].

[420:2] See Thomson, page [356].

[421:1] It was Cowper who gave this now common name to the mignonette.

[421:2]

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;

Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.

Heber: Palestine.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building.—1 Kings vi. 7.

[422:1] Write the vision, and make it plain, upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.—Habakkuk ii. 2.

He that runs may read.—Tennyson: The Flower.

[423:1] See Young, page [312].

[423:2] Var. How he esteems your merit.

[424:1] Keep the golden mean.—Publius Syrus: Maxim 1072.

[424:2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page [199].

ERASMUS DARWIN. 1731-1802.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar

Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;

Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear

The flying chariot through the field of air.

The Botanic Garden. Part i. Canto i. Line 289.

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,

No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,

Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,

Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,

Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows

Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

The Botanic Garden. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 459.

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BEILBY PORTEUS. 1731-1808.

In sober state,

Through the sequestered vale of rural life,

The venerable patriarch guileless held

The tenor of his way.[425:1]

Death. Line 108.

One murder made a villain,

Millions a hero. Princes were privileged

To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.[425:2]

Death. Line 154.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Death. Line 178.

Teach him how to live,

And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.[425:3]

Death. Line 316.