to
be remembered when the gigantic butcheries of modern times have been
forgotten.]
[Footnote 111: Civic virtues, unless they have their origin and consecration in
private and domestic virtues, are but the virtues of the theatre. He who
has not a loving heart for his child, cannot pretend to have any true
love for humanity.--Jules Simon's LE DEVOIR.]
[Footnote 112: 'Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education.']
[Footnote 113: Speaking of the force of habit, St. Augustine says in his
'Confessions' "My will the enemy held, and thence had made a chain for
me, and bound me. For of a froward will was a lust made; and a lust
served became custom; and custom not resisted became necessity. By which
links, as it were, joined together [11whence I called it a chain] a hard
bondage held me enthralled."]
[Footnote 114: Mr. Tufnell, in 'Reports of Inspectors of Parochial School Unions in
England and Wales,' 1850.]
[Footnote 115: See the letters [11January 13th, 16th, 18th, 20th, and 23rd, 1759],
written by Johnson to his mother when she was ninety, and he himself was
in his fiftieth year.--Crokers BOSWELL, 8vo. Ed. pp. 113, 114.]
[Footnote 116: Jared Sparks' 'Life of Washington.']
[Footnote 117: Forster's 'Eminent British Statesmen' [11Cabinet Cyclop.] vi. 8.]
[Footnote 118: The Earl of Mornington, composer of 'Here in cool grot,' &c.]
[Footnote 119: Robert Bell's 'Life of Canning,' p. 37.]
[Footnote 1110: 'Life of Curran,' by his son, p. 4.]
[Footnote 1111: The father of the Wesleys had even determined at one time to
abandon his wife because her conscience forbade her to assent to his
prayers for the then reigning monarch, and he was only saved from the
consequences of his rash resolve by the accidental death of William
III. He displayed the same overbearing disposition in dealing with his
children; forcing his daughter Mehetabel to marry, against her will, a
man whom she did not love, and who proved entirely unworthy of her.]
[Footnote 1112: Goethe himself says--"Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, Des Lebens
ernstes Fuhren; Von Mutterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabuliren."]
[Footnote 1113: Mrs. Grote's 'Life of Ary Scheffer,' p. 154.]
[Footnote 1114: Michelet, 'On Priests, Women, and Families.']
[Footnote 1115: Mrs. Byron is said to have died in a fit of passion, brought on by
reading her upholsterer's bills.]
[Footnote 1116: Sainte-Beuve, 'Causeries du Lundi,' i. 23.]
[Footnote 1117: Ibid. i. 22.]
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