[167] Suffrage, approval.
"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
Shakespeare, II. Henry VI., III. 2.
[168] "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." —Hamlet, ii. 2.
[169] Barbadoes, an island in the Atlantic Ocean, one of the Lesser Antilles. The negroes, composing by far the larger part of the population, were formerly slaves.
[170] He had rather have his actions ascribed to whim and caprice than to spend the day in explaining them.
[171] Diet and bleeding, special diet and medical care, used figuratively, of course.
[172] Read Emerson's essay on Greatness.
[173] The precise man, precisely what kind of man.
[174] "By their fruits ye shall know them."—Matthew, vii. 16 and 20.