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PAGE [301]. Bub Doddington said, etc. Cf. vol. VI. (Table-Talk), p. 100 and note. Salus populi, etc. The Twelve Tables, De Officio Consulis. The upstart, etc. This sentence was omitted in Sketches and Essays. [302]. Mr. Cobbett seemed disappointed, etc. The reference is probably to The Weekly Political Register for Oct. 29, 1825, where Cobbett deplores the fact that Baron Maseres (1731–1824), who had visited him in prison, had left the bulk of his large property to a ‘little Protestant parson.’ ‘His patron’s ghost,’ etc. Cf. Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, I. St. 51. [303]. ‘Never standing upright,’ etc. See Macklin’s The Man of the World, II. 1. ‘In large heart enclosed.’ Cf. Paradise Lost, VII. 486. [304]. ‘The world,’ etc. Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn, 233. ‘The heart of man,’ etc. Cf. Jeremiah xvii. 9. ‘As the flesh,’ etc. Cf. Measure for Measure, Act II. Sc. 1. ‘Tread,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 3. [305]. ‘If thine eye,’ etc. Cf. S. Matthew v. 29. ‘The little chapel-bell,’ etc. Hazlitt refers to The Chapel Bell, an early poem of Southey’s (1793), and The Book of the Church, published by Southey in 1824. Camille-Desmoulins, etc. Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), the well-known Revolutionary pamphleteer; Camille Jordan (1771–1821), called ‘Jordan Carillon,’ from a speech (July 4, 1797) in which he proposed to restore the use of bells to the clergy. See Hazlitt’s Life of Napoleon, chap. 15. ‘His own miniature-picture,’ etc. ‘On my own Miniature Picture’ (1796).