Footnotes
[706:4] See Byron, page [555].
[706:5] See Washington, page [425].
[706:6] See Mason, page [393].
[706:7] See Burke, page [409].
[706:8] See Churchill, page [412].
[706:9] A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.—Phædrus: Fables, iv. 22, 1.
The old proverb was now made good: "The mountain had brought forth a mouse."—Plutarch: Life of Agesilaus II.
[706:10] See Pope, page [323].
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OVID. 43 b. c.-18 a. d.
They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.[707:1]
The Art of Love. i. 99.
Nothing is stronger than custom.
The Art of Love. ii. 345.
Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.[707:2]
Metamorphoses. i.
It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.[707:3]
Metamorphoses. xiii.
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.[707:4]
Fasti. iv. 311.