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. False Greatness._

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

_Doxology._

FOOTNOTES:

[301-3] See Herbert, page 205.

[303-1] I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.--SENECA: _On a Happy Life_ (L'Estrange's Abstract), _chap. i._

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.--OVID: _Metamorphoses, xiii._

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 1676-1745.

The balance of power.

_Speech, 1741._

Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."[304-1]

COXE: _Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369._

Anything but history, for history must be false.

_Walpoliana. No. 141._

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.[304-2]

FOOTNOTES:

[304-1] "All men have their price" is commonly ascribed to Walpole.

[304-2] Hazlitt, in his "Wit and Humour," says, "This is Walpole's phrase."

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.--ROCHEFOUCAULD: _Maxim 298._

VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1678-1751.

I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples.[304-3]

_On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2._

The dignity of history.[304-4]

_On the Study and Use of History. Letter v._

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.[304-5]

_Letter to Mr. Pope._

FOOTNOTES:

[304-3] Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: "The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples."

[304-4] HENRY FIELDING: _Tom Jones,