Nunquam præponens se illis."
Act I. Sc. 1.
[162] Cowper, Sonnet to John Johnson: Minor Poems.
[163] Fontenelle, Éloge de Leibnitz: Œuvres, Tom. V. p. 493. Leibnitz, Opera, ed. Dutens, Vol. V. p. 7.
"Talis erat species auri frondentis opaca Ilice."
Æneis, VI. 208.
[165] Hon. William Kent, recently appointed Royall Professor of Law in Harvard University.
[166] Letter of Sir James Mackintosh to Hon. Edward Everett, dated June 3, 1824: Life and Letters of Story, Vol. I. p. 435.
[167] Letter of Lord Denman to Charles Sumner, Esq., dated September 29, 1840: Life and Letters of Story, Vol. II. p. 379. The case to which Lord Denman referred was that of Peters v. The Warren Insurance Company, 3 Sumner's Rep. 389, where Mr. Justice Story dissented from the case of De Vaux v. Salvador, 4 Adolph. & Ellis, 420.