FOOTNOTES:
[1] "We talked sad rubbish when we first began," says Mr Cobden in one of his speeches.
[2] Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales, appointed by the Committee of Council on Education. Parts I. II. III. 1847.
[3] This, it will be understood, does not apply to Scotland,—where education has been a very popular interest for nearly two centuries back.
[4] This sketch is derived partly from the note-book, and partly from the conversation, of a young German, now living upon a small estate near Barèges in the Upper Pyrenees.
[5] Histoire de la Conquête de Naples par Charles d'Anjou, frère de St Louis. Par le Comte Alexis de St Priest, Pair de France. 4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1848. Vol. iv.
[6] "Is it true that virgins, torn from their mothers' arms, were the habitual victims of the conqueror's brutality?... Is it true that, when a Frenchman met a Sicilian on horseback, he made him dismount, and forced him to follow upon foot, however long the road? Is it true, that the foreigners could not find themselves with the people of the country without insulting them with the odious name of Patarins, an insult which the Sicilians repaid with usury, by styling them Ferracani?"—St Priest, vol. iv. pp. 23, 24.
[7] Since augmented into the Latin line—
"Quod placuit Siculis, sola Sperlinga negavit."
[8] The death of Cardinal Richelieu offers a singular resemblance with that of Charles of Anjou. Having demanded the Viaticum: "Here is my Lord and my God," he exclaimed; "before him I protest that in all I have undertaken, I have had nothing in view but the good of religion and of the state."—St Priest, vol. iv. p. 165.