Footnotes
[282:4] Mathew Henry says of his father, Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1691): "He would say sometimes, when he was in the midst of the comforts of this life, 'All this, and heaven too!'"—Life of Rev. Philip Henry, p. 70. (London, 1830.)
[282:5] See Middleton, page [172].
[282:6] See Venning, page [262].
[283:1] Nature says best; and she says, Roar!—Edgeworth: Ormond, chap. v. (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.)
[283:2] I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law.—Fisher Ames: On Biennial Elections, 1788.
[283:3] See Heywood, page [19].
[283:4] Bread is the staff of life.—Swift: Tale of a Tub.
Corne, which is the staffe of life.—Winslow: Good Newes from New England, p. 47. (London, 1624.)
The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread.—Isaiah iii. 1.
[283:5] Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi.
[283:6] See Heywood, page [12].
[283:7] There is none so blind as they that won't see.—Swift: Polite Conversation, dialogue iii.
[283:8] Literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16.
Not dead, but gone before.—Rogers: Human Life.
[284:1] See Heywood, page [13].
[284:2] See Appendix, page [859].
RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662-1742.
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90.
"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.[284:3]
Declaration of Rights.
The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.[284:4]
Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).