[75] "This is nature's law; she will never see her children wronged. If the mind which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury but will rise and smile its oppressor. Thus has many a monarch been dethroned."—Longfellow.
[76] It is the theory of Locke, that the angels have all their knowledge spread out before them, as in a map,—all to be seen together at one glance.
[77] Coleridge.
[78] Assembly's Catechism.
[79] Plebeii videntur appellandi omnes philosophi qui à Platone et Socrate et ab ea familia dissiderent.—CICERO, Tuscul. 1, 2, 3.
[80] L'Abbé Barthélemi.
[81] Quarterly Review.
[82] The critic who suffers his philosophy to reason away his pleasure is not much wiser than a child who cuts open his drum to see what is within it that causes the music.—Edinburgh Review.
[83] Ce n'est pas la victoire, c'est le combat qui fait le bonheur des nobles c[oe]urs.—Montalembert.
Si le Tout-puissant tenait dans une main la vérité, et dans l'autre la recherche de la vérité, c'est la recherche que je lui demanderais.—Lessing.