Footnotes

  1. [Return to text]Men who are yearly selected by the inhabitants to superintend the business of the town, and who, among other duties, have the charge of managing the poor.
  2. [Return to text]Ενθα δὲ Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἐρεμνῆς οἰκί' ἔχουσιν, Ὕπνος καὶ Θάνατος, κ. τ. λ. Hes. Theog. 1. 758, etc.
  3. [Return to text]Observe the order of collocation in Genesis i: 5. ‘And the EVENING and the MORNING were the first day.’
  4. [Return to text]‘When the morning stars sang together,’ etc. Job: xxxviii., 7. In the same chapter observe the astonishing boldness of scripture personification, and the unequalled pomp of oriental imagery.
  5. [Return to text]This line is from one of Grimke’s polished and most scholar-like orations.
  6. [Return to text]See ‘[Editor’s Table]’ of the present number.
  7. [Return to text]From the minute account of the good friar, drawn from the ancient chronicles, it would appear that the walls of the tower were pictured in mosaic work.