‘I behold
The tumult and am still.’
Cowper, The Task, IV. 99–100.
ESSAY XI. ON THOUGHT AND ACTION
Abraham Tucker. For Tucker, see vol. IV. pp. 371–385 and notes. [102]. Louvet. The Girondin, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (1760–1797), author of Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas. Note. Cf. Hazlitt’s Life of Napoleon (ed. 1894), III. 298. Tull’s Husbandry. An edition of Jethro Tull’s (1674–1741) Horse-hoing Husbandry (1733) was brought out by Cobbett in 1822. ‘Tut! will you baulk a man,’ etc. ‘Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?’ Much Ado About Nothing, Act II. Scene 3. ‘No figures,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act II. Scene 1. [104]. Chapter of Accidents. Apparently Lord Chesterfield (Letter, Feb. 16, 1753) was the first person who is known to have used this phrase. Southey in The Doctor (chap. cxviii.) attributes to John Wilkes the saying, similar to Hazlitt’s, that ‘the chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.’ And — — for love! Possibly Hazlitt refers to himself. [105]. ‘Measure with a two-foot rule,’ etc. Burke, Regicide Peace (ed. Payne), p. 105. Quicquid agit, etc. See note to vol. II. p. 331. ‘Curtailing him,’ etc. Cf.
‘I, that am curtail’d of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,’ etc.
Richard III., Act I. Scene 1.
‘And to be lord of those that riches have
Than them to have my selfe, and be their servile sclave.’