[[100]] Lockhart (chap. viii.) devotes much time to confuting them.

[[101]] Lockhart, chap. viii.

[[102]] Ubi sœva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare nequit. Swift's Epitaph. [Carlyle's note.]

[[103]] A Bard's Epitaph.

[[104]] The parody is from The Merchant of Venice, iv. 1.

[[105]] Cf. page 1, above.

[[106]] Cf. Matthew vii. 16.

[[107]] An echo from Burns's dedication to the first Edinburgh edition of his poems. Cf. page 3, above.

[[108]] Cf. Daniel iv. 30.

[[109]] The first half of this precept occurs eight times in the New Testament; the second only in Galatians vi. 2.