7. prejudice of the land-tax. The land-tax was first levied in 1699 to pay for the French War. It was carried by Whig feeling in opposition to the Tory landholders.
the destruction of the game, which would proceed while the country gentlemen were occupied with their party differences.
19. sinks. Used transitively, lowers, diminishes. Cf. Shakespeare, Henry VIII., iii. ii. 383, 'A load would sink a navy.'
28. Plutarch, the great Greek moralist and biographer of the first century of our era. The quotation is from De Inimicorum Utilitate.
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2. that great rule. St. Luke, vi. 27, 'Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.'
10. the regard of. A regard for.
19. an object seen in two different mediums. For instance, a straight stick partly immersed in water appears as if bent at the point at which it enters the water. The rays of light reflected from the position under water, by which we see that portion, are bent when they leave the water and enter the air in such a way as to make that part of the stick appear nearer to our eye than it would appear in air.
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4. postulatums. The word has now become Anglicized in a different form, postulate, plural postulates.