[167] Oxford Essays, p. 279. Sterling, from his Christian-Carlylese point of view, declared of Montaigne that "All that we find in him of Christianity would be suitable to apes and dogs rather than to rational and moral beings" (London and Westminster Review, July, 1838, p. 340.)

[168] Sainte-Beuve has noted how in the essay on Prayer he added many safeguarding clauses in the later editions.

[169] See Mr. Spedding's essay, so entitled, in the Cornhill Magazine, August, 1880.

[170] Art. cited, end.

[171] Note cited by Mr. Spedding. Cp. Introd. to Leopold Shakspere p. lxxxvii.

[172] Lear once (iii. 4) says he will pray; but his religion goes no further.

[173] See the passage cited above in section iii in connection with Measure for Measure.

[174] Act iv., Sc. 2.

[175] Act i, Sc. 2.

[176] B. i, Chap. 20.