[132] “And God turned to behold the works which his hands had made, and he saw that everything was very good.”—See Gen. i. 31.
[133] “As a matter of course.”
[134] Too great easiness of access.
[135] Predilections that are undeserved.
[136] Proverbs xxviii. 21. The whole passage stands thus in our version: “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. To have respect of persons is not good; for, for a piece of bread, that man will transgress.”
[137] “By the consent of all he was fit to govern, if he had not governed.”
[138] “Of the emperors, Vespasian alone changed for the better after his accession.”—Tac. Hist. i. 49, 50 (A. L. ii. xxii. 5).
[139] Plut. vit. Demosth. 17, 18.
[140] It is not improbable that this passage suggested Pope’s beautiful lines in the Essay on Man, Ep. i. 125-28.
“Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,