Dr. Spurzheim. See ante, note to p. 17.
[348]. Spin round on its soft axle. ‘Spinning sleeps on her soft axle,’ Paradise Lost, VIII. 165.
[350]. Compunctious visitings of nature. Macbeth, I. 5.
The ‘wicked’ Lord Lyttleton. Thomas, Lord Lyttelton (1744–1779), renowned for his profligacy. He seems to have died three days after a nocturnal warning. See Chambers’s Book of Days, II. 625.
Mother Brownrigg. Elizabeth Brownrigg, who was executed in 1767 for whipping an apprentice to death. See vol. III. Political Essays, notes to pp. 220 and 238.
[351]. Credo quia impossibile est. A phrase of Tertullian’s.
[353]. Sweet oblivious antidote. Macbeth, V. 3.
[354]. Unquenchable fire. S. Mark, ix. 44.
Note. Search’s ‘Light of Nature Pursued.’ See vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 371.