[22] 'Quiet reigned at home; the public offices kept their old
titles;... Tiberius initiated all his measures under the mask of the
consuls, as if it was the old republic.... Yet at Rome there was a
race for servitude; consuls, senators, and knights alike.'
[23] See 'Merivale,' vol. iii. p. 464.
[24] Roscoe's 'Life of Lorenzo de Medici,' p. 6.
[25] 'Macaulay's Speeches,' p. 36.
[26] 'Civil Correspondence of the Duke of Wellington' (Ireland), pp.
28 and 627.
[27] 'Shooting Niagara,' p. 12.
[28] 'De Tocqueville,' vol. i.
[29] Rudd's 'Aristophanes,' 'The Knights.'
[30] Ecclesiastes ii. 18, 19.
[31] Dryden.
[32] Creasy 'On the Constitution.' Hallam's 'Middle Ages,' vol. ii.,
p. 319.
[33] Stephen's 'Blackstone,' vol. ii., p. 361.
[34] 'All's Well that ends Well.'
[35] 'Essays,' p. 45.