ON ROCHEFOUCAULT’S MAXIMS
This paper is signed ‘W. H.’ in The Examiner.
[254]. ‘The web of our life,’ etc. All’s Well that Ends Well, Act IV. Sc. 3. The Practice of Piety. See vol. III. (Political Essays), note to p. 111. Grove’s Ethics. Henry Grove’s (1684–1738) A System of Moral Philosophy (1749). De l’Esprit. Helvétius’s famous book (1758). Note. Lines written while sailing in a boat at evening. [256]. ‘Make assurance,’ etc. Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 1. [257]. ‘Gets the start,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Sc. 2.