Prior's Life of Burke (1790).

Footnotes

[364:4] Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself."—History of England, vol. v. p. 258.

[364:5] "Indemnity for the past and security for the future."—Russell: Memoir of Fox, vol. iii. p. 345, Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland.


SAMUEL JOHNSON.  1709-1784.

Let observation with extensive view

Survey mankind, from China to Peru.[365:1]

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,—