[361] "Is it not fine to be sure of one's action when entering in a combat with another? There, push me a little in order to see. Nicole. Well! what's the matter? M. Jourdain. Slowly. Ho there! Ho! gently. Deuce take the rascal! Nicole. You told me to push. M. Jourdain. Yes, but you pushed me en tierce, before you pushed en quarte, and you did not give me time to parry."
[362] John Abernethy (1764-1831), the famous physician and surgeon.
[363] See Vol. I, page 102, note 5 {175}.
[364] "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."
[365] Eusebius of Cæsarea (c. 260-340), leader of the moderate party at the Council of Nicæa, and author of a History of the Christian Church in ten books (c. 324 A. D.).
[366] Nathaniel Lardner (1684-1768), a non-conformist minister and one of the first to advocate the scientific study of early Christian literature.
[367] Henry Alford (1810-1871) Dean of Canterbury (1857-1871) and editor of the Greek Testament (1849-1861).
[368] The work was The Number and Names of the Apocalyptic Beasts: with an explanation and application. Part I. London, 1848, as mentioned below. Thom also wrote The Assurance of Faith, or Calvinism identified with Universalism (London, 1833), and various other religious works.
[369] See Vol. I, page 222, note 14 {490}.
[370] John Hamilton Thom (1808-1894) was converted to Unitarianism and was long a minister in that church, preaching in the Renshaw Street Chapel from 1831 to 1866. De Morgan refers to the Liverpool Unitarian controversy conducted by James Martineau and Henry Giles in response to a challenge by thirteen Anglican Clergy. In 1839 Thom contributed four lectures and a letter to this controversy. Among his religious works were a Life of Blanco White (1845) and Hymns, Chants, and Anthems (1854).