[459:3] See Walpole, page [389].
[460:1] Mr. Smith, with reference to the "Edinburgh Review," says: "The motto I proposed for the 'Review' was 'Tenui musam meditamur avena;' but this was too near the truth to be admitted; so we took our present grave motto from Publius Syrus, of whom none of us had, I am sure, read a single line."
[460:2] A favorite motto, which through life Mr. Smith inculcated on his family.
[460:3] See Cowper, page [419].
[461:1] Lord Wharncliffe says, "The well-known sentence, almost a proverb, that 'this world consists of men, women, and Herveys,' was originally Lady Montagu's."—Montagu Letters, vol. i. p. 64.
[461:2] See Dryden, p. 273.
[461:3] The right man to fill the right place.—Layard: Speech, Jan. 15, 1855.
J. HOOKHAM FRERE. 1769-1846.
And don't confound the language of the nation