Chapter 23

Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples."

[304-4] HENRY FIELDING: _Tom Jones, book xi. chap. ii._ HORACE WALPOLE: _Advertisement to Letter to Sir Horace Mann._ MACAULAY: _History of England, vol. i. chap. i._

[304-5] Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 331._

GEORGE FARQUHAR. 1678-1707.

_Cos._ Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?

_Kite._ Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.

_The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. 1._

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

_The Beaux' Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 1._

'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.[305-1]

_The Beaux' Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 2._

Necessity, the mother of invention.[305-2]

_The Twin Rivals. Act i._

FOOTNOTES:

[305-1] Leaving his country for his country's sake.--FITZ-GEFFREY: _The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, stanza 213_ (1596).

True patriots all; for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good.

GEORGE BARRINGTON: _Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. New South Wales, p. 152._

[305-2] Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.--RICHARD FRANCK: _Northern Memoirs_ (written in 1658, printed in 1694).

Necessity is the mother of invention.--WYCHERLEY: _Love in a Wood,