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jambes: ains estoyent mes dites jambes toutes dâune venue: de
sorte que les liens de quoy jâattachois mes bas de chausses
estoyent, soudain que je cheminois, sur les talons avec le residu
de mes chausses.âââOEuvres, 319-20.
{12} At the sale of Mr. Bernalâs articles of vertu in London a few
years since, one of Palissyâs 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-dâoeuvre. 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} DâAubigne, âHistoire Universelle.â The historian adds,
âVoyez lâimpudence de ce bilistre! vous diriez quâil auroit lu ce
vers de Seneque: âOn ne peut contraindre celui qui sait mourir:
Qui mori scit, cogi nescit.ââ
{15} The subject of Palissyâs 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
Palissyâs own account of his experiments as given in his âArt de
Terre.â
{16} âAlmighty God, the great Creator,
Has changed a goldmaker to a potter.â
{17} The whole of the Chinese and Japanese porcelain was formerly
known as Indian porcelainâprobably 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} âWedgwood: an Address delivered at Burslem, Oct. 26th,
1863.â 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} âSaturday Review,â July 3rd, 1858.
{21} Mrs. Groteâs âMemoir of the Life of Ary Scheffer,â 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 âThe Praise of
Music.â 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 ponyâtaking 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 Englandâ
the functions of which he is universally admitted to have performed
with unsurpassed ability, justice, and honour.
{24} On âThought and Action.â
{25} âCorrespondance de Napoleon Ier.,â publiee par ordre de
lâEmpereur 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 Napoleonâs 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. Collingwoodâs 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 âTimes.â
{29} âSelf-Development: an Address to Students,â by George Ross,
M.D., pp. 1-20, reprinted from the âMedical Circular.â 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} âSaturday Review.â
{31} See the admirable and well-known book, âThe Pursuit of
Knowledge under Difficulties.â
{32} Late Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrewâs.
{33} A writer in the âEdinburgh Reviewâ (July, 1859) observes that
âthe Dukeâs 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 âfood for powder.â He
gained no sort of distinction, either at Eton or at the French
Military College of Angers.â It is not improbable that a
competitive examination, at this day, might have excluded him from
the army.
{34} Correspondent of âThe Times,â 11th June, 1863.
{35} Robertsonâs âLife and Letters,â i. 258.
{36} On the 11th January, 1866.
{37} Brownâs âHorae Subsecivae.â
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