Footnotes
[512:3] See John Webster, page [181].
The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.—Diogenes Laertius: Pyrrho, ix.
At length, fatigued with life, he bravely fell,
And health with Boerhaave bade the world farewell.
Church: The Choice (1754).
[513:2] See Sterne, page [379].
[514:1] See Norris, page [281].
[514:2] See Freneau, page [443].
[514:3] See Coleridge, page [504].
[515:1] When the stormy winds do blow.—Martyn Parker: Ye Gentlemen of England.
[515:2] The starres, bright centinels of the skies.—Habington: Castara, Dialogue between Night and Araphil.
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
G. P. Morris: Woodman, spare that Tree.
HENRY CLAY. 1777-1852.
The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."[516:2]
Speech, 1813.
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Speech at Ashland, Ky., March, 1829.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Speech, 1848.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
Speech, 1850 (referring to the Compromise Measures).