[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.