[6] Compare ‘Munera Pulveris,’ § 140. [↑]
[7] Compare also Mr. Maurice’s sermon for the fourth Sunday after Trinity in Vol. II. of third series. (Smith, Elder & Co., no date.) [↑]
[8] In calling a man pre-eminently unfortunate, I do not mean that, as compared with others, he is absolutely less prosperous; but that he is one who has met with the least help or the greatest hostility, from the Third Fors, in proportion to the wisdom of his purposes, and virtue of his character. [↑]
[9] Italian ‘fregata,’ I believe ‘polished-sided’ ship, for swiftness, ‘fricata;’ but the derivation is uncertain. [↑]
FORS CLAVIGERA.
LETTER XXIII.
Brantwood,
October 24th, 1872.
My Friends,
At breakfast this morning, which I was eating sulkily, because I had final press-corrections to do on ‘Fors,’ (and the last are always worst to do, being without repentance,) I took up the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ for the 21st, and chanced on two things, of which one much interested, the other much pleased me, and both are to our present purpose.