[12]. The class placed first in these compounds is that which predominates.
[13]. Gibbon.
[14]. Roscoe’s Life of L. de’ Medici, chap. ix.
[15]. See Hone’s description of one performed in 1815 before several crowned heads of Europe for three successive days; Hone on the Mysteries. See also Wilhelm Meister, vol. 1.
[16]. In Germany about 1750, and in England about 1550, the vernacular first began to supersede the Latin in philosophical and literary works.
[17]. Asser’s Life of Alfred.
[18]. Life of Raleigh, 6 Port. Gal. p. 10.
[19]. Colin Clout.
[20]. If Napoleon was an imitator of Alexander, it was only another point of identity between them; for Alexander was an imitator of Bacchus.
[21]. It is narrated of Napoleon that he was a practical Nasologist, and influenced in his choice of men by the size of their Noses. “Give me,” said he, “a man with a good allowance of Nose. Strange as it may appear, when I want any good headwork done, I choose a man—provided his education has been suitable—with a long Nose.”