She feared no danger, for she knew no sin."
The Hind and the Panther, Part I. 1-4.
[112] Minos, § 12.
[113] Theætetus, § 85.
[114] According to the legends of the Catholic Church, this most admired instance of justice opened to Trajan, although a heathen, the gates of salvation. Dante found the scene and the "visible speech" of the widow and Emperor storied on the walls of Purgatory, and has transmitted them in a passage which commends itself hardly less than any in the divine poem.—See Purgatorio, Canto X.
[115] "Ils veulent être libres, et ne savent pas être justes," was the famous exclamation of Sieyès.
[116] The services of the choir on this occasion were performed by the youthful daughters of the public schools of Boston.
[117] Hansard, LXVIII. 667.
[118] Hon. John G. Palfrey.
[119] Wendell Phillips Esq.