[22] No. 300.
[23] No. 264.
[24] Réflexions Critiques sur quelques Poètes, i. 237.
[25] Œuv. i. 248.
[26] Réflexions Critiques sur quelques Poètes, i. 238.
[27] Œuv. i. 243.
[28] Œuv. i. 275.
[29] Correspondance. Œuv. ii. 131, 207.
[30] Long-winded and tortuous and difficult to seize as Shaftesbury is as a whole, in detached sentences he shows marked aphoristic quality; e.g. 'The most ingenious way of becoming foolish is by a system;' 'The liker anything is to wisdom, if it be not plainly the thing itself, the more directly it becomes its opposite.'
[31] No. 278 (i. 411).