FOOTNOTES
[1] It must not be forgotten that this was long since written.
[2] In allusion to the Bacchanalian women, who struck every one they met with a Thyrsus;—oppose them, they will hit the oftener.
[3] Aliter.
Leave in the sacred retreats of science some shelter to wise and good men, disgusted with the view of surrounding crimes, and alarmed at the prospect of impending woes.
Or thus,
Leave some shelter to the contemplative scholar and the dispassionate philosophist.
[4] It is to be remembered that these memoranda were written in some situation remote from the metropolis, and some time after the Sexagenarian had lived in obscure retirement.
[5] The reader is again reminded, that the manuscript which speaks thus, was written many years since.