Footnotes
[223:1] But vindicate the ways of God to man.—Pope: Essay on Man, epistle i. line 16.
[224:1] See Book iv. line 75.
[224:2] Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air.—Gray: The Bard, i. 2, line 6.
[226:1] Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.—Diogenes Laertius: Socrates, v.
[226:2] Our hope is loss, our hope but sad despair.—Shakespeare: Henry VI. part iii. act ii. sc. 3.
[227:1] Rubente dextera.—Horace: Ode i. 2, 2.
[230:1] Compare great things with small.—Virgil: Eclogues, i. 24; Georgics, iv. 176. Cowley: The Motto. Dryden: Ovid, Metamorphoses, book i. line 727. Tickell: Poem on Hunting. Pope: Windsor Forest.
[231:1] Ye little stars! hide your diminished rays.—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iii. line 282.
[232:1] See Herrick, page [203].
[232:2] Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.—William Pitt: Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
[234:1] When unadorned, adorned the most.—Thomson: Autumn, line 204.
[238:1] "But most of all respect thyself."—A precept of the Pythagoreans.
[239:1] Stern daughter of the voice of God.—Wordsworth: Ode to Duty.
[240:1] Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes (Neither fear nor wish for your last day).—Martial: lib. x. epigram 47, line 13.
[241:1] The child is father of the man.—Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps up.
[245:1] See Shakespeare, page [56].
[247:1] Erant quibus appetentior famæ videretur, quando etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur (Some might consider him as too fond of fame, for the desire of glory clings even to the best of men longer than any other passion) [said of Helvidius Priscus].—Tacitus: Historia, iv. 6.
[249:1] Wisdom married to immortal verse.—Wordsworth: The Excursion, book vii.
[251:1] See Chaucer, page [6].
[253:1] See Bacon, page [169].
[255:1] Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.—Jefferson: Inaugural Address.
EDWARD HYDE CLARENDON. 1608-1674.
He [Hampden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute any mischief.[255:2]
History of the Rebellion. Vol. iii. Book vii. § 84.