[89] These regalia are now removed to some other place. 1840.
[90] A dagger is here preserved which, on entering the body, separates into three parts, rendering extraction more dangerous than the primary wound!
[91] By the way, the extreme care which the heroes of antiquity, as well as those of the middle-ages, took to cover every part of their bodies with brass and iron plates, does not exhibit any very striking proof of their courage. Why should they not have fought without armour, trusting to activity, bravery, and strength, rather than to coats of mail? In the best days of the Roman legions, they fought without armour.
[92] In Saxony, the punishment of death is by decapitation.
[93] From the researches of the Rev. Mr. Gleig, Scepticism has invaded the Catholic camp!
“But, even in Catholic countries, the cloven-foot of Scepticism is for ever thrusting itself from beneath the priest’s robe; while amongst the Protestants, to believe God’s word, as it is written, forms the exception to the general rule which Rationalism has established.”—Vol. I. preface.
[94] He might be represented as a person with two shadows. The shade behind (time past) is tolerably distinct—that which is before (time to come) is dim in the extreme, and ill-defined.
[95] Russell’s Germany, Vol. I. pp. 123.
[96] This trait in Gallic character has never been more clearly discerned, or more cleverly met than by Viscount Palmerston. Palmam qui meruit ferat.
[97] Among the perversions of language we may notice the following in the vocabulary of the French fire-eaters. “Offended pride” means detected fraud.