Footnotes
[304:1] "All men have their price" is commonly ascribed to Walpole.
[304:2] Hazlitt, in his "Wit and Humour," says, "This is Walpole's phrase."
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.—Rochefoucauld: Maxim 298.
VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1678-1751.
I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples.[304:3]
On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.
The dignity of history.[304:4]
On the Study and Use of History. Letter v.