[51] Pensées de Pascal, Notes de Condorcet et Voltaire, No. 109.
[52] His will being dated three years before his death.
[53] Louis Blanc, Histoire de la Révolution Française, Tom. X. p. 316.
[54] Guizot, Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon Temps, Tom. II. p. 219.
[55] Diary, December 18, 1765: Works, Vol. II. p 154.
[56] History of New England (ed. Savage), 1645, Vol. II. p. 229.
[57] An eloquent French critic says, among other things, of this greatest picture of Tintoretto, that "no painting surpasses, or perhaps equals" it, and that, before seeing it, "one can have no idea of the human imagination." (Taine, Italy, Florence, and Venice, tr. Durand, pp. 314, 316.) Some time after this Speech an early copy or sketch of this work fell into Mr. Sumner's hands, and it is now a cherished souvenir of those anxious days when the pretensions of Slavery were at their height.
[58] Le Vicomte d'Orthez à Charles IX.: D'Aubigné, Histoire Universelle, Part. II. Liv. I. ch. 5, cited by Sismondi, Histoire des Français, Tom. XIX. p. 177, note. I gladly copy this noble letter. "Sire, j'ai communiqué le commandement de Votre Majesté à ses fidèles habitans et gens de guerre de la garnison; je n'y ai trouvé que bons citoyens et braves soldats, mais pas un bourreau. C'est pourquoi eux et moi supplions très humblement Votre dite Majesté vouloir employer en choses possibles, quelque hasardeuses qu'elles soient, nos bras et nos vies, comme étant, autant qu'elles dureront, Sire, vôtres."
[59] Essays, XLII. Of Youth and Age.
[60] The Reason of Church Government, Book II., Introduction: Prose Works, ed. Symmons, Vol. I. p. 117.