[778:4] Lactantius: Divin. Instit. iii. 28.

[778:5] Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of great design as of chance.—Rochefoucauld: Maxim 57.

[778:6] See Churchill, page [413].

[778:7] Livy, xxiii. 3.

[779:1] See Rabelais, page [771].

[779:2] See Walpole, page [389].

[779:3] See Shakespeare, page [44].

[779:4] See Churchill, page [413].

[780:1] See Cowper, page [424].