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to it; that they may see, that all worldly attainments, whether of greatness, wisdom, or bravery, are but empty sounds; and there is nothing wise, or great, or noble, in an human spirit, but rightly to know and heartily worship and adore the great God, that is the support and life of all spirits, whether in Heaven or on earth.

It

THE notes in this edition simply aim at explaining the names of the " Characters," and at giving the sense of words which have altered their connotation in the course of the two centuries. is hoped that the reader will thus be saved the necessity of referring to dictionaries, which, for the use of a pocket-manual of devotion, is often out of the question. The meaning of the Characters" is given even when it is obvious, for the sake of uniformity.

(1) p. 3. Julius: the suggestion is, that Cæsar is the worldly power as opposed to God.

(2) P.

3. impertinent = unsuitable,

(3) P.

9.

See pp. 102, 136.

incongruous, uncongenial.

Leo, the lion probably suggesting the favourite of
Society.

(4) p. 9. Eusebius, pious in the Ecclesiastical sense (see p. 95), aз the name of the first Church historian, hut without reference to that historian's character. cf. Eusebia, p. 254.

(5) p. 10. a natural, i.e. an idiot.

See p. 347.

(6) p. 26. Penitens, penitent almost in the sense of remorseful. (7) p. 27. Amuses occupies the attention (cf. Watts in 1789. We are so amused and engrossed with the things

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of sense that we forget our Maker).

(8) p. 27. Lepidus = elegant.

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(9) p. 38. painful taking pains.

(10) p. 38. Calidus hot, i.e. fervent in business.

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(11) p. 46. however, in the old sense of " (12) p. 47. unaffected insensible.

(13) p. 49. Serena = untroubled.

(14) p. 58. exposed into the ayre

(15) p. 62. (16) p. 67.

century writers.

at any rate."

is a usage of the sixteenth

A second " as is needed to be quite correct.
Flavia. The Gens Flavia was the noble family from
which Vespasian, Titus and Domitian came.
stands therefore for worldly pomp, half innocent,
half vicious.

It

Miranda=admirable, supposed to be a portrait of Miss
Hester Gibbon. Lucinda = resplendent.

Belinda and Lucius on p. 69 are names at random. (17) p. 83. Law acted on these principles himself; and the effect on the poor of King's Cliffe was the reverse of satisfactory.

(18) p. 87.

(19) p. 94.

"But as it

To make the sentence grammatical read,
should be well considered that it is not only," etc.
The abominations of the Restoration Stage still pre-
vailed in 1726.

(20) p.

(21) P.

96. This division into a religious and secular life contra-
dicts the whole argument. See p. 113.
Fulvius, the name of a great Patrician family in
Rome, suggests worldly power and pomp.

99.

(22) p. 120.

(23) p. 134.
(24) p. 139.

(25) p. 140.

(26) p. 141.

(27) p. 149.

(28) p. 150.

Cælia, a name which through its Greek form has a
suggestion of hollowness.

Lupus = Wolf.

Flatus, i.e. wind and vanity.

Feliciana, i.e. she who belongs to the family of the
Happy according to this world.

Birthnight. "The night annually kept in memory
of anyone's birth." -Johnson.

Succus: the suggestion is of juicy and appetising

meat.

Octavius: suggested by the name of the Emperor
Augustus, who asked his friends to applaud him
on his death-bed as a good pantomime leaving the
stage.

Eugenius, i.e. noble, oûтo de ĥoav evyevéσtepol táv év
Θεσσαλονίκη (Acts xvii. 1).

(29) p. 151. Cognatus, i.e. relation, suggestive of nepotism.
(30) p. 153. Negotius-business-man.

(31) p. 180. Mundanus = worldly-wise-man.

(32) p. 181. Classicus, i.e. a classical scholar.

(33) p. 214. Cæcus, i.e. blind.

(34) p. 237.

(35) p. 240.

(36) p. 245.

Paternus: the character, it is thought, is drawn from
Law's father.

This usage of "consider." with the preposition
upon "died with the eighteenth century.
This address of Paternus might be an antidote to
Chesterfield's letters to his son. At this date, 1728,
Chesterfield was ambassador at the Hague, and the
son Philip Stanhope was born four years later.
(37) p. 247. Tempers, i.e. disposition.

(38) p. 249. Matilda, perhaps chosen as the name of the first
English Empress.

(39) p. 271. Claudius; chosen as a Patrician name.

(40) p. 274. port, i.e. behaviour.

(41) p. 276.

imminent: if not a mere slip for eminent, may mean
perilously high, like Lowell's "imminent crags of

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speak to him,' a rare

example of carelessness or obscurity in Law's
limpid style.

(44) p. 308. Susurrus, i.e. whisper.

(45) p. 328. that carelessly repeated.

(46) p. 343. ingenuity, i.e. ingenuousness.

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LImited,

BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND
BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

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