re, its floodgates.--_Ed._]

405 [That is, more.--_Ed._]

406 [That is, a deficiency.--_Ed._]

407 [Gen. xxx. 11.--_Ed._]

408 [Vide Cic. de Offic. lib. iii. cap. 33.--_Ed._]

409 [Or mines.--_Ed._]

410 [Or, unsuitable.--_Ed._]

411 ["Charity does not inflict punishment because an offence has been
committed, but lest an offence should be committed."--_Ed._]

412 ["He that is not inclined to-day will be more inclined to-morrow."
This is reversing the saying of the poet--

Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit

Ovid, Remed. Amor. ver. 94.--_Ed._]

413 ["She does not see what is in the bag behind her."

Sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est.

Catul. Carm. xxii. ver. 21.

There is an allusion here to one of the fables of AEsop. Jupiter,
says Aesop, placed two bags upon men. The one, which contained their
own faults, he put upon their back, and the other, which was filled
with the faults of others, he suspended from their neck, upon their
breast. In this way, we cannot see our own misdeeds, but, perceiving
those of others, we censure them freely. Phaed. Fab. AEsop, lib. iv.
fab. 10.--_Ed._]

414 [These are terms (locus inventionis _the place or topic of
invention_, and medium, _the argument or middle term of a
syllogism_) which, belonging to the dialectic art, were employed by
the school-men. All the arts and sciences have certain general
subjects connected with them which presuppose particular facts,
axioms, and rules. These general subjects, being used in the
_invention_ of arguments, were called topics or common places. "They
were so called by Aristotle, as if they were the seats from which
arguments were to be brought forth." (Sic appellatae ab Aristotele
sunt hae quasi sedes e quibus argumenta promuntur). Cic. Top. cap.
ii.--_Ed._]

415 [We grant and solicit in our turn this indulgence. Hor. De Art.
poet. ver. 11.--_Ed._]

416 [Or, condescendence.--_Ed._]

417 [Or, without its begetting love.--_Ed._]

418 [Overlook it.--_Ed._]

419 [Most.--_Ed._]

420 [The word _homo_ (man) has been supposed to be derived from _humus_
(the ground) because man sprang from the earth. Quintillian's
objection to this derivation of the word is that all other animals
have the same origin. (quasi vero non omnibus ani