[493] [For "Lycanthropy," see "The Soldier's Story" in the Satyricôn of Petronius Arbiter, cap. 62; see, too, Letters on Demonology, etc., by Sir W. Scott, 1830, pp. 211, 212.]
[494] [In respect of suavity and forbearance Melancthon was the counterpart of Luther. John Arrowsmith (1602-1657), in his Tractica Sacra, describes him as "Vir in quo cum pietate doctrina, et cum utrâque candor certavit.">[
[IX] Like Moses or like Cobbett who have ne'er.
Moses and Cobbet proclaim themselves the "meekest of men." See their writings.—[MS.]
Like Moses who was "very meek" had ne'er.—[MS. erased.]
[495] {381}[See his "Correspondance avec L'Impératrice de Russie," Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire, 1836, x. 393-477. M. Waliszewski, in his Story of a Throne, 1895, i. 224, has gathered a handful of these flowers of speech: "She is the chief person in the world.... She is the fire and life of nations.... She is a saint.... She is above all saints.... She is equal to the mother of God.... She is the divinity of the North.—Te Catherinam laudamus, te Dominam confitemur, etc., etc.">[
[IY] Of everything that ever cursed a nation.—[MS. erased.]
[496] ["It is still more difficult to say which form of government is the worst—all are so bad. As for democracy, it is the worst of the whole; for what is (in fact) democracy?—an Aristocracy of Blackguards."—See "My Dictionary" (May 1, 1821), Letters, 1901, v. 405, 406.]
[IZ] {382}Though priests and slaves may join the servile cry.—[MS. erased.]
[497] In Greece I never saw or heard these animals; but among the ruins of Ephesus I have heard them by hundreds.