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[402]. ‘The salt of the earth.’ S. Matthew v. 13. ‘Cuts,’ etc. Cf. Cowper, The Task, III. 208–9. ‘The sentiment,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 218 and note.
PROJECT FOR A NEW THEORY, ETC.
This essay was published in Literary Remains, and again, more fully, in Winterslow, where it is dated 1828. It may possibly have been printed in The Atlas for 1829, a complete file of which the Editors have not been able to find. The essay is here printed from Winterslow. See Mr. W. C. Hazlitt’s Memoirs (1867), I. 24 et seq.
PAGE [405]. Mr. Currie. This should apparently be Corrie. See Memoirs, I. 25. The Test and Corporation Acts. Repealed in 1828. [409]. ‘I am monarch,’ etc. Cowper, Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. ‘Founded as the rock.’ Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. [410]. Mr. Burke talks, etc. Hazlitt seems to refer to Burke’s Essay, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Part IV. §25. [411]. ‘There’s no divinity,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act IV. Sc. 5. [412]. Essay on Wages. An Essay on the Circumstances which determine the Rate of Wages, etc. (1826). ‘Throw your bread,’ etc. Cf. Ecclesiastes xi. 1. [413]. ‘While this machine,’ etc. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. [419]. ‘Like the wild goose,’ etc. As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 7.
ON THE CONDUCT OF LIFE, ETC.
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PAGE [425]. ‘The salt of the earth.’ S. Matthew v. 13. ‘According to your own dignity,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. Sc. 2. [428]. ‘How shall we part,’ etc. Cf. Paradise Lost, XI. 282–5. ‘The study of the Classics,’ etc. See vol. I. (The Round Table) p. 4 and notes. [431]. ‘Practique,’ etc. Henry V., Act I. Sc. 1. [435]. ‘We hunt the wind,’ etc. See Don Quixote, Part I. Book II. chap. xiii. ‘Quit, quit,’ etc. Cf. Suckling’s Song, ‘Why so pale and wan, fond lover?’ [436]. ‘When on the yellow,’ etc. Coleridge, Love, St. 16. [437]. ‘Nods and winks,’ etc. Cf. L’Allegro, 28. [439]. ‘Paled,’ etc. Cf. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 5.
BELIEF, WHETHER VOLUNTARY?
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