[60.] Alluding to the rabbinical tradition that the world would last for 6000 years, attributed to Elias, and cited in the Talmud.
[61.] Zeno was the founder of the Stoics.
[62.] Referring to a passage in Suetonius, Vit. J. Cæsar, sec 87:—“Aspernatus tam lentum mortis genus subitam sibi celeremque optaverat.”
[63.] In holding
“Mors ultima pœna est,
Nec metuenda viris.”
[64.] The period when the moon is in conjunction and obscured by the sun.
[65.] One of the judges of hell.
[66.] To select some great man for our ideal, and always to act as if he was present with us. See Seneca, lib. i. Ep. 11.
[67.] Sir T. Browne seems to have made various experiments in this subject. D’Israeli refers to it in his “Curiosities of Literature.” Dr Power, a friend of Sir T. Browne, with whom he corresponded, gives a receipt for the process.