[979]. E. g. Ricardo, Senior, and Dr. Thos. Chalmers (who paid him a flying visit in October 1822: Life by Hanna, vol. ii. p. 358), and Francis Horner (Memoirs and Corresp., e. g. vol. i. p. 406). In i. 436 of his Memoirs Horner speaks of having gone with John Whishaw, the barrister, to visit Malthus at Haileybury in 1808, and takes occasion to praise his mere love of truth above the eloquence and versatility of others, though that, he says, may look like a decision in favour of dulness.
[980]. E. g. the reservoir, p. 106; but the most extravagant is perhaps the botanical figure, on p. 273, where he says that “the forcing manure,” employed to cause the French Revolution, has “burst the calyx of humanity.” Macaulay uses a similar metaphor of precisely the same event, in the Essay on Burleigh.
[981]. His own command of metaphor made it the easier for him to turn the edge of an opponent’s. See e. g. his handling of Weyland’s Giant, Musket-ball, and Swaddling-clothes, in Essay, Append. pp. 514–521.
[982]. Engraved by Fournier for the Dictionnaire de l’Économie Politique, art. ‘Malthus.’
[983]. See below, p. 418 n.
[984]. Gentl. Mag., March 1835, p. 324.
[985]. Essay (7th ed.), II. iii. 148, where “winter of 1788” is perhaps for 1798, though it is 1788 in the second and all subsequent editions; or else “preceding” may be wrong. Cf. High Price of Prov., p. 2.
[986]. Cf. above, pp. 48, 127, which should be read in conjunction with this Biography.
[987]. Life of Clarke, vol. ii. p. 183. We know from a footnote in the essay itself (7th ed., p. 194) that part of it at least was written in 1802.
[988]. Stanhope, Life of Pitt, iii. p. 36; cf. p. 53. “Our election at Cambridge was perfectly quiet.”