After contradiction in terms, add: ‘Besides, it might be objected captiously that what is strictly common to all is necessarily to be found exemplified in each individual.’
[431]. Till our content is absolute. Othello, Act II. Sc. 1.
Know, virtue were not virtue.
‘Nor should the change be mourned, even if the joys
Of sense were able to return as fast,’ etc.
Laodamia.
[432]. Patient Grizzle. The Clerke’s Tale.
[433]. The human and the brute. The two paragraphs that follow do not appear in The Atlas, but have been added to the Essay from the source mentioned above.
[434]. To o’erstep the modesty of nature. Hamlet, Act III. Sc. 2.