FOOTNOTES:
[46] From the "History of the French Revolution."
[47] Jean Paul Marat, a physician, was the most radical of the Jacobins and had been a leader in the overthrow of the Girondists on June 2, 1793. He was assassinated by Charlotte Corday on July 18 of the same year.
[48] From "Past and Present."
[49] From "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History."
[50] From "Sartor Resartus."
[51] From "Past and Present."
[52] From the essay on Lockhart's "Life of Scott," contributed to the London and Westminster Review in 1838.
[53] A reference apparently to Carlo Broschi, an Italian soprano, whom Grove's "Dictionary" describes as "the most remarkable singer perhaps who has ever lived." He was born in 1705 and died in 1782.
[54] From the essay on Croker's edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson," contributed to Frazer's Magazine in 1832.