Footnotes
[528:1] The title given by Lord Brougham to a book published in 1830.
[528:2] Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror.—Campbell: Lives of the Chancellors, vol. vii. p. 163.
Lord St. Leonards attributes this phrase to Sir Charles Wetherell, who used it on the occasion referred to by Lord Campbell.
From Edmund Curll's practice of issuing miserable catch-penny lives of every eminent person immediately after his decease, Arbuthnot wittily styled him "one of the new terrors of death."—Carruthers: Life of Pope (second edition), p. 149.
PAUL MOON JAMES. 1780-1854.
The scene was more beautiful far to the eye
Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.
The Beacon.
And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.
The Beacon.
CHARLES MINER. 1780-1865.
When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter,—thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.
Who 'll turn Grindstones.[528:3]