[510] Vapid: without taste or spirit.
[511] “Studies become habits.”
[512] “Splitters of cummin-seeds;” or, as we now say, “splitters of straws,” or “hairs.” Butler says of Hudibras:—
“He could distinguish and divide
A hair ’twixt south and southwest side.”
[513] Causes one side to preponderate.
[514] “The common father.”
[515] “As one of us.” Henry the Third of France, favoring the league formed by the Duke of Guise and Cardinal De Lorraine against the Protestants, soon found that, through the adoption of that policy, he had forfeited the respect of his subjects.
[516] See a note to Essay 15.
[517] Of Castile. She was the wife of Ferdinand of Arragon, and was the patroness of Columbus.