[20] De vita propria, cap. 38.
[21] Cap. 37.
[22] Polyhistor. Literar. Lib. i. Cap. 19. 9. Tom i. p. 217.
[23] There are beauties, in the character of Don Quixote, which can only be understood by persons accustomed to lunatics. The dexterity and readiness with which he reconciles all events with the wayward system which he has adopted: his obstinacy in retaining and defending false impressions, and the lights of natural sagacity, and cultivated eloquence, which break frequently through the cloud that dims his understanding, are managed with consummate knowledge of partial insanity, though it is sometimes hardly perceptible to the general reader.
[24] Memoirs de Trevoux, T. viii.—1726.
[25] Hist. of the Irish Rebellion, by Sir John Temple, Kt.—p. 123.
[26] Mem. de Sully, Liv. i.
[27] Clarke’s Life of Nelson, vol. II.
[28] Second Part of Clarke’s “Travels in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.” Page 268.
FINIS.