"--Hume, _Treatise
of Human Nature._]
[Footnote 91: "The colour of our whole life is generally such as the
three or four first years in which we are our own masters make
it."--Cowper.]
[Footnote 92: "I refer to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master,
John Jackson, Esq., Professor of Pugilism, who I trust still retains the
strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour
and athletic, as well as mental, accomplishments."--_Note on Don Juan,
Canto II_.]
[Footnote 93: Thus addressed always by Lord Byron, but without any
right to the distinction.]
[Footnote 94: The Journal entitled by himself "Detached Thoughts."]
[Footnote 95: Few philosophers, however, have been so indulgent to the
pride of birth as Rousseau.--"S'il est un orgueil pardonnable (he
says) apres celui qui se tire du merite personnel, c'est celui qui se
tire de la naissance."--_Confess._]
[Footnote 96: This gentleman, who took orders in the year 1814, is the
author of a spirited translation of Juvenal, and of other works of
distinguished merit. He was long in correspondence with Lord Byron,
and to him I am indebted for some interesting letters of his noble
friend, which will be given in the course of the following pages.]
[Footnote 97: He had also, at one time, as appears from an anecdote
preserved by Spence, some thoughts of burying this dog in his garden,
and placing a monument over him, with the inscription, "Oh, rare
Bounce!"
In speaking of the members of Rousseau's domestic establishment, Hume
says, "She (Therese) governs him as absolutely as a nurse does a
child.
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