Chapter 15

[148]De Oratoribus Dialogus, c. 32,—sometimes attributed to Tacitus.

[149]Notes on Eliot's Indian Grammar, Mass. Hist. Coll., Second Series, Vol. IX. p. xi. I cannot forbear adding, that in the correspondence of Leibnitz there is a proposition for a new alphabet of the Arabic, Æthiopic, Syriac, and similar languages, which may remind the reader of that of Mr. Pickering. Leibnitz, Opera (ed. Dutens), Vol. VI. p. 88.

[150]Sir William Jones had studied eight languages critically,—English, Latin, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Sanscrit; eight less perfectly, but all intelligible with a dictionary,—Spanish, Portuguese, German, Runic, Hebrew, Bengali, Hindi, Turkish; twelve least perfectly, but all attainable,—Tibetian, Pâli, Phalavi, Deri, Russian, Syriac, Æthiopic, Coptic, Welsh, Swedish, Dutch, Chinese: in all twenty-eight languages.—Teignmouth,Life of Jones, p. 376, note.

[151]De Oratore, Lib. III. cap. 32.

[152]Preface to Dictionary.

[153]Divina Commedia,Inferno, Canto XXIV. vv. 47-51.

[154]Hon. Edward Everett, President of Harvard University.

[155]Hon. Josiah Quincy, late President of Harvard University.

[156]History of the Rebellion, Book VII.

[157]Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, vv. 303-306.

[158]Hampton's Polybius, Book VI. Ext. II. ch. 2.

[159]Erasmi Epist., Lib. V. Ep. 4.

[160]Harrington's Oceana, p. 134.

[161]Terence, taught, perhaps, by his own bitter experience as slave, has given expression to truth almost Christian, when he says,—"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."Heauton., Act I. Sc. 1.And in theAndria,—"Facile omnes perferre ac pati,Cum quibus erat cunque una: iis sese dedere:Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini:Nunquam præponens se illis."Act I. Sc. 1.

[161]Terence, taught, perhaps, by his own bitter experience as slave, has given expression to truth almost Christian, when he says,—

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

Heauton., Act I. Sc. 1.

And in theAndria,—

"Facile omnes perferre ac pati,Cum quibus erat cunque una: iis sese dedere:Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini:Nunquam præponens se illis."

"Facile omnes perferre ac pati,

Cum quibus erat cunque una: iis sese dedere:

Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini:

Nunquam præponens se illis."

Act I. Sc. 1.

[162]Cowper, Sonnet to John Johnson: Minor Poems.

[163]Fontenelle, Éloge de Leibnitz: Œuvres, Tom. V. p. 493. Leibnitz, Opera, ed. Dutens, Vol. V. p. 7.

[164]"Talis erat species auri frondentis opaca Ilice."Æneis, VI. 208.

[164]

"Talis erat species auri frondentis opaca Ilice."

Æneis, VI. 208.

[165]Hon. William Kent, recently appointed Royall Professor of Law in Harvard University.

[166]Letter of Sir James Mackintosh to Hon. Edward Everett, dated June 3, 1824: Life and Letters of Story, Vol. I. p. 435.

[167]Letter of Lord Denman to Charles Sumner, Esq., dated September 29, 1840: Life and Letters of Story, Vol. II. p. 379. The case to which Lord Denman referred was that ofPetersv.The Warren Insurance Company, 3 Sumner's Rep. 389, where Mr. Justice Story dissented from the case ofDe Vauxv.Salvador, 4 Adolph. & Ellis, 420.

[168]Hansard, Parl. Deb., LXVIII. 667.

[169]Life and Letters of Story, Vol. II. p. 429.

[170]Encyclopædia Americana, articleLaw, Legislation, Codes, Appendix to Vol. VII. pp. 576-592. Report of the Commissioners of Massachusetts on the Codification of the Common Law. American Jurist, Vol. XVII. p. 17.

[171]Bacon, Offer to King James of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England: Works, Vol. II. p. 548, 4to ed. Leibnitz, Ratio Corporis Juris reconcinnandi; Epist. XV., ad Kestnerum: Opera, Tom. IV. Pars iii. pp. 235, 269.

[172]Prior, Life of Burke, Vol. II. p. 190.

[173]Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs and Essays:Washington Allston, p. 126. (New York, 1846.)

[174]Bunsen, Beschreibung der Stadt Rom, Band I. p. 588. Article onModern Art, by K. Platner.

[175]Ovid, Tristia, Lib. II. 527.

[176]Martial, Epig., Lib. X. 89.

[177]Dunlap's History of the Arts of Design, Vol. II. p. 188. Mrs. Jameson's Memoirs and Essays:Washington Allston, p. 114.

[178]Anthol. Lib. IV. Tit. viii. Ep. 26.

[179]Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Lib. II. 6.

[180]Mrs. Jameson, Memoirs and Essays:Washington Allston, p. 118.

[181]Ben Jonson's inscription for the "pious marble" in honor of Drayton.

[182]The Antelope, 10 Wheaton's Rep. 211.

[183]Commonwealthv.Aves, 18 Pick. 211.

[184]Letter to Blanco White, July 29, 1836: Life of White, Vol. II. p. 251.

[185]Statius, Silv., Lib. IV. Carm. 6.

[186]Æneid, VI. 852.—Dryden, translating this passage, gives distinctness to a duty beyond the language of Virgil:—"The fettered slave to free,These are imperial arts, and worthy thee."

[186]Æneid, VI. 852.—Dryden, translating this passage, gives distinctness to a duty beyond the language of Virgil:—

"The fettered slave to free,These are imperial arts, and worthy thee."

"The fettered slave to free,

These are imperial arts, and worthy thee."

[187]The legend on the early seal of Harvard University wasVeritas. The present legend isChristo et Ecclesiæ.

[188]18 Pick. Rep. 215.

[189]Works, Vol. I. p. 45.

[190]Annals of Congress, First Congress, Second Session, col. 1198.

[191]Sparks's Writings of Washington, Vol. IX. p. 159, note.

[192]John Quincy Adams.

[193]How Mr. Webster regarded this appeal will be seen in a letter from him at the end of the Speech.

[194]Speech on the Resolution concerning the Conduct of the British Minister, Dec. 28, 1809: Annals of Congress, Eleventh Congress, Second Session, col. 958.

[195]Speech, Nov. 27, 1780: Hansard, Parl. Hist., XXI. 905.

[196]"Our country,—however bounded, still our country, to be defended by all our hands."

[197]Speech at the Whig Convention in Faneuil Hall, Sept. 23, 1846.

[198]Speech at the Whig Convention, Sept. 23, 1846.

[199]Speech on the Tariff, June 25, 1846: Congressional Globe, Twenty-ninth Congress, First Session, p. 970.

[200]Speech on the Tariff, June 25, 1846.

[201]Vol. XVIII., col. 688. See also Annual Register for 1776, Vol. XIX. p. 42

[202]202 Hume, History of England, Chap. L.

[203]Hume, History of England, Chap. L.

[204]Ibid., Chap. LXI.

[205]Niles's Register, Vol. VII. p. 139: November 5, 1814.

[206]Hansard, Parl. Hist., Vol. XVIII. col. 846.

[207]Mass. House Doc. 1847, No. 7.

[208]See Niles's Register, Vol. VII. pp. 313, 333, 352.

[209]Bacon, Maxims of the Law, Reg. III.

[210]Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr., p. 320.

[211]Tacitus, Agricola, c. 30.

[212]Of Reformation in England, Book II.: Prose Works, Vol. I. p. 29.

[213]Works, ed. Sparks, Vol. VIII. p. 155.

Transcriber's Notes.The punctuation and spelling are as in the original publication with the exception of the following:line 7271 enfore is now enforce.line 2611 Gibeon is now Gideon.Page 242 was a numbered blank page.

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