[36] Voltaire himself, with his acute perception, seems to have been one of the first to discover the absurdity of the representation of Tiberius by Tacitus.
[37] Essai sur les Mœurs, ch. cxxi.
[38] Parton, ii. 549.
[39] Ibid., ii. 551.
[40] Ibid., i. 232.
[41] Martin's History of France.
[42] Parton, i. 461.
[43] Martin's History of France.
[44] A sermon preached May 7, 1882.
[45] The North American Review, May, 1877.