ON TOOKE’S DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY
Lecture IX. was ‘On the Theory of Language; as treated by Horne Tooke, by the author of Hermes, and Lord Monboddo.’ Cf. vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), p. 231, and notes.
[119]. ‘Mere [very] midsummer madness.’ Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 4. [123]. M. Portalis. Jean Étienne Marie Portalis (1745–1807), one of the compilers of the Code Napoléon. ‘Of the little sneering,’ etc. Junius, Letter LIV. ‘Undoes creation,’ etc. Gay, Verses to be placed under the Picture of Sir R. Blackmore. ‘Rebelling angels,’ etc. Marvell, On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost. ‘Holds us a while,’ etc. Ibid. [125]. ‘That honour consists.’ etc. Jonathan Wild, Book I. Chap. 13. [128]. A celebrated German philosopher. Kant. [131]. ‘So from the root,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 1, where much of this paragraph is repeated. [132]. ‘Has oft been chased,’ etc. Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, l. 5–8.