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‘_Our Doctors Commons_,’ _etc._ Malthus, p. 576.

‘_Father Paul._’ In Sheridan’s _Duenna_, first performed in 1775
at Covent Garden.

‘_That the poor_,’ _etc._ Malthus, p. 411.

‘_A man who_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._

160. ‘_“If,” says he_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ p. 540.

161. ‘_This is well said_,’ _etc._ _Henry VIII._, Act III. Scene 2.

162. ‘_I like not_,’ _etc._ _Merry Wives of Windsor_, Act. IV. Scene 2.

165. _Omne tulit punctum._ Horace, _Ars Poetica_, 343.

166. _Mr. Burke has said._ ‘Nobody will be argued into slavery.’
_Speech on American Taxation_ (April 19, 1774, _Select Works_,
ed. Payne, I. 155).

166. ‘_Among the prejudices_,’ _etc._ Malthus, p. 477.

Note. _Tucker._ Abraham Tucker (1705–1774), whose chief work _The
Light of Nature Pursued_ (7 vols., 1768–1778) was abridged by
Hazlitt (1807). See _ante_, pp. 371–385. Paley admitted his
obligations to Tucker.

168. ‘_Will come when it will come._’ _Julius Caesar_, Act II. Scene 2.

‘_The object of those_,’ _etc._ Malthus, p. 508.

169. ‘_The pressure of distress_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ p. 525.

_Blifil._ In _Tom Jones_.

_The euthanasia foretold by Hume._ See his Essay ‘On the British
Government.’ ‘They talk,’ said Burke, ‘of Mr. Hume’s Euthanasia
of the British Constitution gently expiring without a groan in
the paternal arms of a mere Monarchy. In a monarchy! Fine
trifling indeed! There is no such Euthanasia for the British
Constitution.’ _Regicide Peace_ (ed. Payne), p. 352.

172. _Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes._ Virgil, _Aeneid_, II. 49.

_As the husband secured the virtue of his wife_, _etc._ That is,
presumably, by cutting off her head, ‘the Sign of the Good
Woman,’ representing a headless woman carrying her head in her
hand.

173. ‘_I should propose_,’ _etc._ Malthus, p. 538. A great part of the
rest of Hazlitt’s _Reply_ was repeated in the _Political
Essays_. See vol. III. pp. 374–381.

176. ‘_These paper bullets of the brain._’ _Much Ado about Nothing_,