"Not to admire, as most are wont to do,
It is the only method that I know,
To make Men happy and to keep 'em so.">[
[303] [Johnson placed judgment and friendship above admiration and love. "Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened." See Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1876, p. 450.]
[304] {248}There is nothing, perhaps, more distinctive of birth than the hand. It is almost the only sign of blood which aristocracy can generate.
[305] {249}[In old pictures of the Fall, it is a cherub who whispers into the ear of Eve. The serpent's coils are hidden in the foliage of the tree.]
[FK] {250}The very women half forgave her face.—[MS, Erased.]
[FL] Had his instructions—where and how to deal.—[MS.]
[FM] And husbands now and then are mystified.—[MS.]
[306] {251}[Narrow javelins, once known as archegays—the assegais of Zulu warfare.]