is not by any means to be ranked among evils but
included among things which we account good in the highest
degree.--Cic. Oper. tom. iv. pp. 1347, 1348. Basil 1681.--_Ed._]

201 [Animals that have a sting are called aculeata animalis. _Plin. Nat.
Hist._ lib. xx. cap. 91.--_Ed._]

202 [That is, not knowing.--_Ed._]

203 [Dr. Mead describes the means which were formerly resorted to in
this country to check the progress of the plague. "The main import
of the orders issued out at these times was as soon as it was found
that any house was infected, to keep it shut up, with a large red
cross, and these words 'Lord, have mercy upon us,' painted on the
door, watchmen attending day and night to prevent any one's going in
or out except such physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, nurses,
searchers, &c., as were allowed by authority, and this to continue
at least a month after all the family was dead or recovered.

"It is not easy to conceive a more dismal scene of misery than this,
families locked up from all their acquaintance, though seized with a
distemper which the most of any in the world requires comfort and
assistance, abandoned it may be to the treatment of an inhuman
nurse, (for such are often found at these times about the sick,) and
strangers to every thing but the melancholy sight of the progress
death makes among themselves, with small hopes of life left to the
survivors and those mixed with anxiety and doubt, whether it be not
better to die, than to prolong a miserable being, after the loss of
their best friends and nearest relations."--_Dr. Mead's Medical
Works_ p. 273.--_Ed._]

204 [That is, stupified.--_Ed._]

205 [That is obstruction. "Mr. Prin and the Erastian lawyers are now our
_remora_"--Baillie's Letters and Journal, vol. ii., p. 158.--_Ed._]

206 [The ancient heathens seem to have looked upon a future state, says
Leland, (Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation, vol.
ii. p. 305, Glasgow, 1819,) as too uncertain a thing to be relied
upon, and therefore endeavoured to find out motives to virtue
independent on the belief of the rewards prepared for good men after
this life is at an end. They represented, in an elegant and
beautiful manner, the present conveniences and advantages of virtue,
and the satisfact