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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.[347-1]

_Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727._

This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew.[347-2]

FOOTNOTES:

[314-2] See Milton, page 223.

There is no theme more plentiful to scan Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.

DU BARTAS: _Days and Weeks, third day._

[315-1] See Milton, page 242.

[315-2] Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.--PASCAL: _Thoughts, chap. v. 2._

[316-1] All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me.--MONTAIGNE: _Apology for Raimond Sebond._

[316-2] See Sir John Davies, page 176.

[316-3] See Dryden, page 267.

[316-4] There is no great and no small.--EMERSON: _Epigraph to History._

[316-5] See Dryden, page 276.

[317-1] La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).--CHARRON: _De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1._

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.--PLATO: _Phædrus._

[317-2] What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.--PASCAL: _Thoughts, chap. x._

[317-3] See Dryden, page 269.

[318-1] Why may not a goose say thus? . . . there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me; I am the darling of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me?--MONTAIGNE: _Apology for Raimond Sebond._

[318-2] See Cowley, page 260.

[319-1] See Fletcher, page 183.

[319-2] See Cowley, page 262.

[319-3] May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.

SAVAGE: _Character of Foster._

[320-1] See Bolingbroke, page 304.

[320-2] See Dryden, page 273.

[320-3] 'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.--COLLINS: _Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5._

[321-1] Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis (All things change, and we change with them).--MATTHAIS BORBONIUS: _Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum, i. 685._

[321-2] See Prior, page 287.

[322-1] See Milton, page 231.

[322-2] See Brown, page 287.

[323-1] See Suckling, page 256.

[323-2] Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods).--HORACE: _De Arte Poetica, 359._

[323-3] See Bacon, page 166.

[323-4] See Suckling, page 257.

[325-1] Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

BURNS: _Address to the Unco Guid._

[325-2] See Shakespeare, page 96.

[325-3] Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénault's "Abrégé Chronologique," and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.

[326-1] See Burton, page 191.

[327-1] See Bacon, page 168.

[327-2] See Denham, page 258.

[327-3] When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises: So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.

P. FLETCHER: _The Purple Island, canto vii._

[327-4] See page 336.

[327-5] See Sternhold, page 23.

[328-1] See Spenser, page 27.

[328-2] This line is repeated in the translation of the Odyssey,

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