[164] Frey Luis de Sonsa, in the History of the Dominican Order in Portugal, relates this legend. The legend of the Infant Saviour coming to play with a child has been embodied in the poetry of many languages, especially the German.
[165] Now Bishop of Exeter. He was the author of an ingenious but whimsical essay, styled, "The Education of the World," in Essays and Reviews, where he parcelled out the elements of our present civilization among different nations of antiquity. He almost seems to have thought that Turner owed his knowledge of painting, in some vague way, to Zeuxis and Parrhasius.
[166] To give Calvin his due, he was only for chopping off the head of Servetus. He called eagerly for his blood; but he was willing to temper justice with so much mercy as lies in substituting the axe for the fagot.
[167] Professor Jowett, Essays and Reviews, ninth ed. p. 377. This essay contains several jokes, which to us seem rather out of place. "Even the Greek Plato," says the professor, (p. 390,) "would have 'coldly furnished forth' the words of 'eternal life.'" The reader will remember the words of Shakespeare,
"The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables,"
meaning (as is shown by the preceding words, Thrift, thrift, Horatio!) that the marriage had followed so close upon the funeral that the pasties which had been hot at the one came up cold at the other. The new turn given by Mr. Jowett to his original has, we admit, a very humorous effect; but we cannot help thinking that he has been unseasonably witty.
[168] Hor. Bk. ii. Sat. 5. Both birth and virtue, without money, are more worthless than seaweed.
[169] De Eccl. Milit. lib. iii. cap. 2.
[170] De Rom. Pontif. lib. iii. capp. 2, 3, 5.
[171] Theol. Wirceburg. tom. i. De Princip. Direct. n. 190.