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. sect. IV.

108. _The ‘Essay on Vision.’_ Published in 1709.

110. ‘_Reason pandering will._’ Cf. ‘And reason panders will.’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 4.

118. _Dr. Clarke’s celebrated work._ Samuel Clarke’s (1675–1729) _Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, etc._, one of the Boyle lectures delivered in 1704 and 1705.

ON TOOKE’S DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY

Lecture IX. was ‘On the Theory of Language; as treated by Horne Tooke, by the author of _Hermes_, and Lord Monboddo.’ Cf. vol. IV. (_The Spirit of the Age_), p. 231, and notes.

119. ‘_Mere_ [very] _midsummer madness_.’ _Twelfth Night_, Act III. Sc. 4.

123. _M. Portalis._ Jean Étienne Marie Portalis (1745–1807), one of the compilers of the _Code Napoléon_.

‘_Of the little sneering_,’ _etc._ Junius, Letter LIV.

‘_Undoes creation_,’ _etc._ Gay, _Verses to be placed under the Picture of Sir R. Blackmore_.

‘_Rebelling angels_,’ _etc._ Marvell, _On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost_.

‘_Holds us a while_,’ _etc. Ibid._

125. ‘_That honour consists._’ _etc._ _Jonathan Wild_,