Footnotes
[430:1] L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs (History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes).—Voltaire: L' Ingénu, chap. x.
[430:2] See Fielding, page [364].
[430:3] See Clarendon, page [255].
[430:4] On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons (It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions).—Voltaire: Letter to M. le Riche. 1770.
J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions).—De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.
[430:5] See Chapman, page [35].
[431:1] Never less alone than when alone.—Rogers: Human Life.
THOMAS PAINE. 1737-1809.
And the final event to himself [Mr. Burke] has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
Letter to the Addressers.
These are the times that try men's souls.
The American Crisis. No. 1.
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.[431:2]
Age of Reason. Part ii. note.