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‘_Carve them as a dish_,’ _etc._ _Julius Caesar_, Act II. Scene 1.

283. _Guicciardini._ Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), author of a
History of Italy from 1494 to 1532.

_Thuanus._ Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553–1617), whose _Historia
sui Temporis_ Johnson ‘seriously entertained the thought of
translating.’

_Dr. Pangloss._ In George Colman, the younger’s (1762–1836), _The
Heir-at-law_, produced in 1797.

284. ‘_Of lamentation_,’ _etc._

‘Cocytus, named of lamentation loud
Heard on the rueful stream.’
_Paradise Lost_, II. 579–80.

285. ‘_Unbought grace of life._’ Burke, _Reflections on the Revolution
in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 89).

‘_And gladly_,’ _etc._ Chaucer, _The Canterbury Tales_, the
Prologue, l. 308.

286. _An Essay on the Principles of Human Action._ By Hazlitt,
published in 1805.

287. _A History of England._ Mackintosh collected materials for a
history of England from 1688 to the French Revolution, but left
only a fragment posthumously published in 1834 under the title
of ‘A History of the Revolution in England in 1688.’

MR. MALTHUS. Cf. _ante_, pp. 1–184 and Vol. III. pp. 356–385.

289. ‘_Like the toad_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act. II. Scene 1.

290. ‘_The mighty stream of tendency._’ Wordsworth, _The Excursion_,

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