[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.