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FOOTNOTES:

[265-4] Every tub must stand upon its bottom.--MACKLIN: _The Man of the World, act i. sc. 2._

[265-5] RAY: _Proverbs._ GAY: _The Shepherd's Week. Wednesday._

[266-1] See Butler, page 212.

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. 1628-1699.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

_Ancient and Modern Learning._

No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could more astonish the world than our declaration of war against Holland in 1672.

_Memoirs. Vol. ii. p. 255._

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

_Miscellanea.