[435] “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”—Gen. iii. 19.
[436] “In the sweat of the face of another.”
[437] In the middle ages the Jews were compelled, by legal enactment, to wear peculiar dresses and colors; one of these was orange.
[438] “A concession by reason of hardness of heart.” He alludes to the words in St. Matthew xix. 8.
[439] See note to Essay xix.
[440] Hold.
[441] The imaginary country described in Sir Thomas More’s political romance of that name.
[442] Regulation.
[443] Be paid.
[444] Our author was one of the earliest writers who treated the question of the interest of money with the enlightened views of a statesman and an economist. The taking of interest was considered, in his time, immoral.