Footnotes

[804:1] Macaulay: Essay on Mirabeau.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792.

It is only the dead who do not return.

Speech, 1794.

Against stupidity the very gods

Themselves contend in vain.

The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.

The richest monarch in the Christian world;

The sun in my own dominions never sets.[804:2]

Don Carlos. Act i. Sc. 6.