'Popery,' he says, 'was
never so well understood by the nation as it came to be upon this
occasion.' Whitby's Commentary _on the New Testament_ was published
in 1703-9.
[755] By Henry Mackenzie, the author of _The Man of Feeling. Ante_, i.
360. It had been published anonymously this spring. The play of the same
name is by Macklin. It was brought out in 1781.
[756] No doubt Sir A. Macdonald. _Ante_, p. 148. This 'penurious
gentleman' is mentioned again, p. 315.
[757] Moliere's play of _L'Avare_.
[758]
'...facit indignatio versum.'
Juvenal, _Sat_. i. 79.
[759] See _ante_, iii. 252.
[760] He was sixty-four.
[761] Still, perhaps, in the _Western Isles_, 'It may be we shall touch
the Happy Isles.' Tennyson's _Ulysses._
[762] See _ante_, ii, 51.
[763] See _ante_, ii. 150.
[764] Sir Alexander Macdonald.
[765] 'To be or not to be: that is the question.' _Hamlet_, act iii. sc.
1.
[766] Virgil, _Eclogues_, iii. III.
[767] 'The stormy Hebrides.' Milton's _Lycidas_, 1. 156.
[768] Boswell was thinking of the passage (p. xxi.) in which Hawkesworth
tells how one of Captain Cook's ships was saved by the wind falling.
'If,' he writes, 'it was a natural event, providence is out of the
question; at least we can with no more propriety say that providentially
the wind ceased, than that providentially the sun rose in the morning.
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