[4]. Tristram Shandy.
[5]. Meaning in substance, Purify the mind as well as the body.
[6]. The truth of this circumstance was confirmed by Mr. Hoffman in the course of a conversation upon that and similar topics several years afterward.
[7]. In a collection of proverbs published in 1594, we find, “Dieu mesure le vent à la brebis tondue,” and Herbert has in his Jacula Prudentum, “To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.”
[8]. A London periwig-maker once had a sign upon which was painted Absalom suspended from the branches of the oak by his hair, and underneath the following couplet:—
If Absalom hadn’t worn his own hair,
He’d ne’er been found a hanging there.
[9].
I n times momentous appeared the world’s triple conjunction,
E ncouraging human hearts to shout melodious praises.