]
[Footnote 83: Characters in the novel called _Percival_.]
[Footnote 84: This appeal to the imagination of his correspondent was
not altogether without effect.--"I considered," says Mr. Dallas,
"these letters, _though evidently grounded on some occurrences in the
still earlier part of his life_, rather as _jeux d'esprit_ than as a
true portrait."]
[Footnote 85: He appears to have had in his memory Voltaire's lively
account of Zadig's learning: "Il savait de la metaphysique ce qu'on en
a su dans tous les ages,--c'est a dire, fort peu de chose," &c.]
[Footnote 86: The doctrine of Hume, who resolves all virtue into
sentiment.--See his "Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals."]
[Footnote 87: See his Letter to Anthony Collins, 1703-4, where he
speaks of "those sharp heads, which were for damning his book, because
of its discouraging the staple commodity of the place, which in his
time was called _hogs' shearing_."]
[Footnote 88: Hard, "Discourses on Poetical Imitation."]
[Footnote 89: Prologue to the University of Oxford.]
[Footnote 90: "'Tis a quality very observable in human nature, that
any opposition which does not entirely discourage and intimidate us,
has rather a contrary effect, and inspires us with a more than
ordinary grandeur and magnanimity. In collecting our force to overcome
the opposition, we invigorate the soul, and give it an elevation with
which otherwise it would never have been acquainted.
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