Dicitur ex collo furtim carpsisse coronas,
Postquam est impransi correptus voce magistri.
Hor. 2. Sat. iii. 254.
[117] John xii. 48.
[118] 2 Cor. iv. 7.
[119] Matth. x. 16.
[120] Cic. Off. L. i. c. 31.
[121] See the Story of Musonius Rufus in Tacitus, Hist. L. iii. c. 81.
[122] Cic. de Or. L. ii. c. 18.
[123] Bene præcipiunt, qui vetant quidquam agere, quod dubites, æquum
sit an iniquum: æquitas enim lucet ipsa per se; dubitatio cogitationem
significat injuriæ.
Cic. de Off. L. I. ix.
[124] Matth. v. 8.
[125] To the same purpose, Seneca, of the old heathen philosophers:
“Antiqua sapientia,” says he, “nihil aliud, quàm FACIENDA et VITANDA,
præcepit: et tunc longè meliores erant viri: postquam docti prodierunt,
boni desunt. Simplex enim illa et aperta virtus in obscuram et solertem
scientiam versa est, docemurque disputare, non vivere.” Senec. Ep. xcv.
[126] Corrumpere et corrumpi, _sæculum_ vocatur. Tacitus.
[127] Frequens imitatio transit in mores. Quinctil. L. I. c. XI.
[128] _Vitam impendere vero._ His motto.
[129] Mes ennemies auront beau faire avec leurs injures; ils ne
m’ôteront point l’honneur d’être un homme véridique en touts chose,
_d’être le seul auteur de mon siecle, & de beaucoup d’autres, qui ait
écrit de bonne foi_.
Rousseau, Lettre à M. de Beaumont.
[130] “Une preuve de sa bonne foi, c’est qu’il [M. Newton] a commenté
l’Apocalypse. Il y trouve clairement que le Pape est l’Antichrist, et
il explique d’ailleurs ce livre comme tous ceux qui s’en sont mêlés.
Apparemment qu’il a voulu par ce commentaire CONSOLER LA RACE HUMAINE
de la supériorité qu’il avoit sur elle.” Œuvres de Voltaire, T. v. c.
29. 1757.
“If he [K. James I.] has composed a commentary on the Revelations,
and proved the Pope to be Antichrist; may not a similar reproach be
extended to the famous Napier; and even to NEWTON, at a time when
learning was much more advanced than during the reign of James? From
the grossness of its superstitions, we may infer the ignorance of an
age; but never should pronounce concerning the FOLLY OF AN INDIVIDUAL,
from his admitting popular errors, consecrated with the appearance of
religion.” Hume’s Hist. of Great Britain, Vol. VI. p. 136. Lond. 1763.
8vo.
[131]
Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.
Lucan.
[132] HIPPIAS, THE ELEAN. Cic. de Oratore, c. 32.
[133] SOCRATES.
[134] 2 Cor. xii. 2.
[135] 1 Cor. xiii. 2.
[136] Philip. iii. 6.
[137] Matt. v. 17.
[138] BAYLE, Comm. Phil. Part II. Ch. IV. LOCKE on Toleration, Letter
I. WARBURTON, D. L. B. v. S. 11.
[139] 1 Tim. i. 15.
[140] 1 Cor. xv. 9.
[141] De se tromper en croyant vraie la religion Chrétienne, il n’y
a pas grand’ chose à perdre: mais quel malheur de se tromper en la
croyant fausse! M. Pascal, p. 225.
[142] Plutarch. BRUTUS.
[143] Of opening private letters, and employing spies of state.
CLARENDON.
[144] John x. 32.
[145] “Illa in illo homine mirabilia fuerunt, comprehendere multos
amicitiâ, tueri obsequio, cum omnibus communicare quod habebat, servire
temporibus suorum omnium, pecuniâ, gratiâ, labore corporis, scelere
etiam, si opus esset, et audaciâ: versare suam naturam, et regere ad
tempus, atque huc et illuc torquere et flectere; cum tristibus severè,
cum remissis jucunde; cum senibus graviter, cum juventute comiter; cum
facinorosis audacter, cum libidinosis luxuriosè vivero. Hâc ille tam
variâ multiplicique naturâ, &c.” _Cicero pro M. Cælio_, c. iii.
[146] Juventus pleraque, sed maximè _nobilium_, Catilinæ incœptis
favebat. _Sallust._ c. 17. And again: omnino _cuncta plebes_, Catilinæ
incœpta probabat. c. 37.
[147] 1 John iii. 21.
[148] St. Ambrose. Apud Whitby.
[149] John xviii. 31.
[150] Rom. iii. 4.
[151] The words ταπεινὸς, and _humilis_, are observed to be generally,
if not always, used in a bad sense by the Greek and Latin writers.
[152] Philipp. ii. 5. 8.
[153] Matthew xvi. 24.
[154] Matth. xxiii. 33.
[155] Mark x. 21.
[156] For it is with propositions, as with _characters_, in relation
to which the language of the true moralist is: “Explica, atque excute
intelligentiam tuam, ut videas quæ sit in eâ species, forma, et notio
viri boni.”
Cic. de Off. l. III. c. 20.
[157] Prov. ii. 4.
[158] 1 Tim. v. 6.
[159] Prov. ix. 8.
[160] Queis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.
Hor. I. S. i. 75.
[161] Eccles. v. 11.
[162] Prov. xvi. 25.
[163] Prov. xxiii. 5.
[164] Si hoc est _explere_, quod statim profundas.
CIC. Phil. ii. 8.
[165] Quid sumus, et quidnam victuri gignimur. PERSIUS.
[166] 1 Tim. vi. 9.
[167]
Ardua res hæc est, opibus non tradere mores,
Et cùm tot Crœsos viceris, esse Numam.
MARTIAL, XI. vi.
[168] Matth. xix. 23.
[169] Ps. lxii. 10.
[170] Luke xvi. 9.
[171] 2 Cor. xiii. 14.
[172] 1 Thess. iv. 8.
[173] Acts xi. 16.
[174] Eph. i. 13.
[175] It was the easier to do this, as the Heathens had their Minerva
and Diana, as well as grosser deities; and their vestal virgins too;
though, I doubt, in less numbers than the shameless votaries of the
Corinthian Venus.
See STRABO, L. viii. p. 378. Par. 1620.
[176] Ps. xlvi. 4.—lxxx. 1.—xxvi. 8.
[177] Nullis POLLUITUR casta domus stupris. HOR.
Cum castum amisit POLLUTO CORPORE florem. CATUL.
[178] Dr. Whitby on the place.
[179] Rom. vi. 21.
[180] Job xx. 11.
[181] Prov. xxi. 17.
[182] The poet says well of such _stains_, as these;
_Impressæ resident nec eluentur._
CATULL.
[183] SUET. J. Cæsar, c. 45.
[184] Ps. xxxvii. 38.
[185] Eccles. c. xi. 9.
[186] Pompey, who burnt the papers of Sertorius.
[187] James iii. 2.
[Transcriber’s Note:
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.
Greek words beginning with ϖ have had the character replaced with π.]