[408:2] See Goldsmith, page [401].
[408:3] The march of intellect.—Southey: Progress and Prospects of Society, vol. ii. p. 360.
[409:1] Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors (What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect).—Horace: Epistle i. 12, 19.
Mr. Breen, in his "Modern English Literature," says: "This remarkable thought Alison the historian has turned to good account; it occurs so often in his disquisitions that he seems to have made it the staple of all wisdom and the basis of every truth."
[410:1] This expression was tortured to mean that he actually thought the people no better than swine; and the phrase "the swinish multitude" was bruited about in every form of speech and writing, in order to excite popular indignation.
[411:1] See Appendix, page [859].
[411:2] I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.—Patrick Henry: Speech in the Virginia Convention, March, 1775.
[411:3] We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.— Cause of the Present Discontents, vol. i. p. 439.
[412:1] Family vault of "all the Capulets."—Reflections on the Revolution in France, vol. iii. p. 349.
[412:2] When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."—Prior: Life of Burke.