The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 12 (of 12)

by William Hazlitt

COMMON SENSE

Now republished for the first time.

PAGE [377]. ‘Its price,’ etc. Cf. Job xxviii. 18. ‘Fairly worth the seven.’ Pope, Moral Essays, IV. 44. ‘Comes home,’ etc. Bacon, Essays, Dedication. [378]. ‘Fear,’ etc. Cowper, The Task, II. 325. Commodore Trunnion, etc. See Peregrine Pickle, Chap. viii. [379]. ‘They have,’ etc. Cf. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Sc. 1. [380]. ‘Crack,’ etc. ‘The father cracks of horses, pleughs, and kye.’ Burns, Cotter’s Saturday Night, St. VIII. Phlegmatic C——. Hazlitt probably refers to Cobbett. Cf. a passage in Table-Talk (vol. VI. p. 102).