[41] Bishop George Berkeley’s (1684-1753) “On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.”
[42] A remark by Fisher Ames (1758-1808), of Massachusetts,—perhaps the extremest Federalist of his time.
[43] The famous phrase “honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none” was not Washington’s, but Jefferson’s.
[44] In the debate on Henry Clay’s Compromise resolutions.
[45] Pope’s translation of Homer’s Iliad, book xviii., lines 701-4. Webster changes the first word, “Thus,” to “Now.”
[46] Shakespeare, King Henry the Fifth, Prologue, lines 1-4.
[47] Mr. Webster’s table contained, of course, the figures for 1793 and 1851 only. For the sake of illustration, those for 1900 are now added.
[48] Including Hawaii, but not the other foreign possessions.
[49] Including Alaska, but no other possession not contiguous to the United States.
[50] Male population available for defence.