[23] Rig-Veda-Sanhita, the Sacred Hymns of the Brahmans, translated by M. M., Vol. i. p. xxxix.
[24] Tertullian, Apolog. 16: “rabula et mendaciorum loquacissimus.”
[25] See Strabo, iv. 196; Plin. xvii. 12; Liv. xxxviii. 17.
[26] The annual returns of the very necessary squirrel slaughter in the woods of Altyre, of Cawdor Castle, Beaufort Castle, and Darnaway Castle, each average one thousand squirrels. Thus these four estates might furnish four thousand tails per annum.
[27] Lassalle was killed in a duel in 1864, at the age of thirty-nine.
[28] In the play, Charles V. has a long conference with Franz, but ends by saying of him what Bismarck must have said to himself about Lassalle: “The man is great, but his is not the greatness which I seek, and which I can employ.”
“Der mann ist gross, doch ist es nicht die Grösse,
Welche ich suche und gebrauchen kann.”
[29] Karl Sand, a student of Erlangen, assassinated Kotzebue at Manheim in 1819, and having ineffectually tried to commit suicide, was executed in the following year. In striking Kotzebue, he meant, as he said, “to exterminate the apologist of despotism.”
[30] “Personne n'a de l'esprit, comme tout le monde.” “On peut avoir plus d'esprit qu'un autre, mais non plus d'esprit que tous les autres.”