[71] Annal. Lib. XIV. capp. 42-45. See the memoir of M. de Burigny, Sur les Esclaves Romains: Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions, 1764-1766, Tom. XXXV. pp. 328-359.
[72] In Epist. ad Ephes. Homil. XV. 3.
[73] “Memorabile quod Ulricus epistola refert, Gregorium, quum ex piscina quadam allata plus quam sex mille infantum capita vidisset, ingemuisse.”—Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III. Sec. 2, Mem. 5, Subs. 5. He quotes Kemnicius, Examen Concil. Trident., Pars III., De Cœlibatu Sacerdotum.
[74] Life and Character of Patrick Henry, Sec. II. p. 34.
[75] Massinger, The City Madam, Act V. sc. 1.
[76] West Tennessee Democrat.
[77] Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Notes, Canto V. st. 29.
[78] “Dominum ac servum nullis educationis deliciis dignoscas. Inter eadem pecora, in eadem humo degunt.”—Germania, c. 20.
[79] Butler, Lives of the Saints, Vol. XII. p. 114.
[80] This is a natural incident of Slavery. Bishop Warburton, in a sermon before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, recounts how “a very worthy benefactor bequeathed unto us in trust, for the propagation of the Gospel, a plantation stocked with slaves,” and he exclaims, “An odd legacy to the promulgators of the Law of Liberty!”—Sermon XX.: Works, (London, 1811,) Vol. X. p. 58.