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jambes: ains estoyent mes dites jambes toutes d’une venue: de

sorte que les liens de quoy j’attachois mes bas de chausses

estoyent, soudain que je cheminois, sur les talons avec le residu

de mes chausses.”—‘OEuvres, 319-20.

{12} At the sale of Mr. Bernal’s articles of vertu in London a few

years since, one of Palissy’s small dishes, 12 inches in diameter,

with a lizard in the centre, sold for 162l.

{13} Within the last few months, Mr. Charles Read, a gentleman

curious in matters of Protestant antiquarianism in France, has

discovered one of the ovens in which Palissy baked his chefs-d’oeuvre. Several moulds of faces, plants, animals, &c., were dug

up in a good state of preservation, bearing his well-known stamp.

It is situated under the gallery of the Louvre, in the Place du

Carrousel.

{14} D’Aubigne, ‘Histoire Universelle.’ The historian adds,

“Voyez l’impudence de ce bilistre! vous diriez qu’il auroit lu ce

vers de Seneque: ‘On ne peut contraindre celui qui sait mourir:

Qui mori scit, cogi nescit.’”

{15} The subject of Palissy’s life and labours has been ably and

elaborately treated by Professor Morley in his well-known work. In

the above brief narrative we have for the most part followed

Palissy’s own account of his experiments as given in his ‘Art de

Terre.’

{16} “Almighty God, the great Creator,

Has changed a goldmaker to a potter.”

{17} The whole of the Chinese and Japanese porcelain was formerly

known as Indian porcelain—probably because it was first brought by

the Portuguese from India to Europe, after the discovery of the

Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama.

{18} ‘Wedgwood: an Address delivered at Burslem, Oct. 26th,

1863.’ By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.

{19} It was characteristic of Mr. Hume, that, during his

professional voyages between England and India, he should

diligently apply his spare time to the study of navigation and

seamanship; and many years after, it proved of use to him in a

remarkable manner. In 1825, when on his passage from London to

Leith by a sailing smack, the vessel had scarcely cleared the mouth

of the Thames when a sudden storm came on, she was driven out of

her course, and, in the darkness of the night, she struck on the

Goodwin Sands. The captain, losing his presence of mind, seemed

incapable of giving coherent orders, and it is probable that the

vessel would have become a total wreck, had not one of the

passengers suddenly taken the command and directed the working of

the ship, himself taking the helm while the danger lasted. The

vessel was saved, and the stranger was Mr. Hume.

{20} ‘Saturday Review,’ July 3rd, 1858.

{21} Mrs. Grote’s ‘Memoir of the Life of Ary Scheffer,’ p. 67.

{22} While the sheets of this revised edition are passing through

the press, the announcement appears in the local papers of the

death of Mr. Jackson at the age of fifty. His last work, completed

shortly before his death, was a cantata, entitled ‘The Praise of

Music.’ The above particulars of his early life were communicated

by himself to the author several years since, while he was still

carrying on his business of a tallow-chandler at Masham.

{23} Mansfield owed nothing to his noble relations, who were poor

and uninfluential. His success was the legitimate and logical

result of the means which he sedulously employed to secure it.

When a boy he rode up from Scotland to London on a pony—taking two

months to make the journey. After a course of school and college,

he entered upon the profession of the law, and he closed a career

of patient and ceaseless labour as Lord Chief Justice of England—

the functions of which he is universally admitted to have performed

with unsurpassed ability, justice, and honour.

{24} On ‘Thought and Action.’

{25} ‘Correspondance de Napoleon Ier.,’ publiee par ordre de

l’Empereur Napoleon III, Paris, 1864.

{26} The recently published correspondence of Napoleon with his

brother Joseph, and the Memoirs of the Duke of Ragusa, abundantly

confirm this view. The Duke overthrew Napoleon’s generals by the

superiority of his routine. He used to say that, if he knew

anything at all, he knew how to feed an army.

{27} His old gardener. Collingwood’s favourite amusement was

gardening. Shortly after the battle of Trafalgar a brother admiral

called upon him, and, after searching for his lordship all over the

garden, he at last discovered him, with old Scott, in the bottom of

a deep trench which they were busily employed in digging.

{28} Article in the ‘Times.’

{29} ‘Self-Development: an Address to Students,’ by George Ross,

M.D., pp. 1-20, reprinted from the ‘Medical Circular.’ This

address, to which we acknowledge our obligations, contains many

admirable thoughts on self-culture, is thoroughly healthy in its

tone, and well deserves republication in an enlarged form.

{30} ‘Saturday Review.’

{31} See the admirable and well-known book, ‘The Pursuit of

Knowledge under Difficulties.’

{32} Late Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrew’s.

{33} A writer in the ‘Edinburgh Review’ (July, 1859) observes that

“the Duke’s talents seem never to have developed themselves until

some active and practical field for their display was placed

immediately before him. He was long described by his Spartan

mother, who thought him a dunce, as only ‘food for powder.’ He

gained no sort of distinction, either at Eton or at the French

Military College of Angers.” It is not improbable that a

competitive examination, at this day, might have excluded him from

the army.

{34} Correspondent of ‘The Times,’ 11th June, 1863.

{35} Robertson’s ‘Life and Letters,’ i. 258.

{36} On the 11th January, 1866.

{37} Brown’s ‘Horae Subsecivae.’

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