[39]. Essay, pp. 371, 372.
[40]. Ibid., pp. 375, 376.
[41]. Matt. xvi. 26, 27.
[42]. Dialogue, pp. 53, 54.
[43]. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. By Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2 vols. London: 1854.
[44]. An Apology for the Colouring of the Greek Court. By Owen Jones. London, 1854.
[45]. White marble.—This contempt of white marble is about as wise as Walpole’s contempt of white teeth, which gave rise to his well-known expression, “The gentlemen with the foolish teeth.” Yet though a people have been known to paint their teeth black, white teeth, as white marble, will keep their fashion.
[46]. “Circumlitio.”—See Mr Henning’s evidence before Committee of House of Commons on the preservation of stone by application of hot wax penetrating the stone, and his mode of using it, similar to the encaustic process.
[47]. In the Clouds, Aristophanes makes Socrates swear by the Graces—σοφῶς γε νῆ τάς χαριτας—twitting him, as the scholiast remarks, upon his former employment, alluding to his work of the Graces.—Clouds, 771.
[48]. “Inter statuas Græci sic distinguunt teste Philandro, ut statuas Deorum vocent ἔιδοιλα; Heroum ξοἄνα; Regum ἄνδριαντας: Sapientum εἴκελα; Bene-meritorum βρενεα; quod tamen discrimen auctoribus non semper observatur.”—Hoffmann’s Lexicon.