[18] Prince de Rohan.
[19] Those rare cases are of course excepted, in which the superiority on the one side is not only fairly to be presumed but positive—and so prominently obtrusive, that to propose terms is to inflict terms.
[20] Written in February.
[21] From this number, however, must be excepted the gallant and patriotic General Ferguson. For that officer has had the virtue publicly and in the most emphatic manner, upon two occasions, to reprobate the whole transaction.
[22] 'Totis imperii viribus consurgitur,' says the historian, speaking of the war of the gladiators.
[23] Memoirs, vol. i. pp. 406-20.
[24] In this classification I anticipate matter which Mr. Southey has in the press, the substance of a conversation between us.
[25] L. i. 9. But the passage is made up from, rather than found in, Antoninus. Ed. of Friend.
[26] See Ashe's Travels in America.
[27] 'The Friend,' vol. i. p. 158 (ed. 1850). G.