[295] Prejudice.
[296] 2 Tim. iii. 5.
[297] “Trifles with great effort.”
[298] “With one brow raised to your forehead, the other bent downward to your chin, you answer that cruelty delights you not.”—In Pis. 6.
[299] “A foolish man, who fritters away the weight of matters by finespun trifling on words.”—Vide Quint. x. 1.
[300] Plat. Protag. i. 337.
[301] Find it easier to make difficulties and objections than to originate.
[302] One really in insolvent circumstances, though to the world he does not appear so.
[303] He here quotes from a passage in the Politica of Aristotle, book i. “He who is unable to mingle in society, or who requires nothing, by reason of sufficing for himself, is no part of the state, so that he is either a wild beast or a divinity.”
[304] Epimenides, a poet of Crete (of which Candia is the modern name), is said by Pliny to have fallen into a sleep which lasted 57 years. He was also said to have lived 299 years. Numa pretended that he was instructed in the art of legislation by the divine nymph Egeria, who dwelt in the Arician grove. Empedocles, the Sicilian philosopher, declared himself to be immortal, and to be able to cure all evils. He is said by some to have retired from society that his death might not be known, and to have thrown himself into the crater of Mount Ætna. Apollonius of Tyana, the Pythagorean philosopher, pretended to miraculous powers, and after his death a temple was erected to him at that place. His life is recorded by Philostratus; and some persons, among whom are Hierocles, Dr. More, in his Mystery of Godliness, and recently Strauss, have not hesitated to compare his miracles with those of our Saviour.