This paper is signed ‘W. H.’ in The Examiner.
[254]. ‘The web of our life,’ etc. All’s Well that Ends Well, Act IV. Sc. 3. The Practice of Piety. See vol. III. (Political Essays), note to p. 111. Grove’s Ethics. Henry Grove’s (1684–1738) A System of Moral Philosophy (1749). De l’Esprit. Helvétius’s famous book (1758). Note. Lines written while sailing in a boat at evening. [256]. ‘Make assurance,’ etc. Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 1. [257]. ‘Gets the start,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Sc. 2.
ON THE PREDOMINANT PRINCIPLES, Etc.
This essay, the title of which has been taken from the Index to The Examiner, is No. IX. of the Round Table series. It was republished in Winterslow under the title of ‘Mind and Motive.’
[259]. ‘Friends now fast sworn,’ etc. Coriolanus, Act IV. Sc. 4. [260]. ‘The servile slave.’ The Faerie Queene, II. vii. 33. [261]. ‘The toys of desperation.’ Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 4. [262]. A fine observation, etc. Aristotle, Metaphysics, A I. 980 a, 21.
THE LOVE OF POWER, Etc.
No. XIII. of the Round Table series, republished in Winterslow along with the former essay as ‘Mind and Motive.’
[265]. ‘But for an utmost end,’ etc. Hobbes, Human Nature, VII. 5, 6 (Works, ed. Molesworth, IV. 33). [266]. ‘He courted a statue,’ etc. Don Quixote, Part I. Book II. Chap. 13. [267]. ‘Catch glimpses,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth’s Sonnet, ‘The world is too much with us,’ etc. ‘I also was an Arcadian.’ Cf. vol. VI. (Table Talk), p. 27 and note. [268]. ‘Sithence no fairy lights,’ etc. Sneyd Davies, To the Honourable and Reverend F. C. See ante, note to p. 224. Happy are they, etc. Hazlitt seems to have been fond of this passage. See vol. IV. (Reply to Malthus), p. 104, and vol. III. (Political Essays), note to p. 266.
ESSAY ON MANNERS
This essay, No. XVIII. of the Round Table series, was republished in Winterslow. Part of it Hazlitt himself used in the essay ‘On Manner’ in The Round Table. See vol. I. pp. 44–7 and notes.