7. whim. Whimsical idea.
SPECTATOR 110.
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22. Psalm cxlvii. 9, 'He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.'
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25. Locke. The author of the Essay on the Human Understanding died in 1704. The reference is to II. xxxiii. 10.
26. curious. Elaborate, minutely detailed. Cf. Shakespeare, Cymbeline, V. v. 361:
A most curious mantle, wrought by the hand
Of his queen mother.
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14. by that means. On that account. Cf. Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI., II. i. 178: