Footnotes
[800:6] See Tillotson, page [266].
[800:7] Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, "Voilà le roi qui m'envoie son linge à blanchir."
[800:8] See Young, page [310].
[801:1] See Gibbon, page [430].
[801:2] See Scott, page [494].
Borrowed from Lefranc de Pompignan's "Didon."
[801:3] See Cowper, page [424].
[801:4] See Gibbon, page [430].
Bussy Rabutin: Lettres, iv. 91. Sévigné: Lettre à sa Fille, p. 202. Tacitus: Historia, iv. 17. Terence: Phormio, i. 4. 26.
MADAME DU DEFFAND. 1697-1784.
He [Voltaire] has invented history.[801:5]
It is only the first step which costs.[801:6]
In reply to the Cardinal de Polignac.