Chapter V

October 5. No. VI. (October 6) in the newspaper, begins at the paragraph ‘The ordinary prejudice,’ etc., on p. 118.

_If the French have a fault._ A Sentimental Journey. Character, _Versailles_.

115. _Jump at._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 1.

116. _The finest line in Racine._ ‘Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n’ai point d’autre crainte.’ _Athalie_, Act I. Sc. 1.

118. _Pleas’d with a feather_ [rattle]. Pope, _Essay on Man_, Ep. II. 275.

_Marmontel’s Tales._ Jean Francois Marmontel’s (1723–1799), _Contes Moraux_ (1761), of which several editions have appeared in English.

119. _Quickens, even with blowing._ _Othello_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

_The melancholy of Moorditch._ _1 King Henry IV._, Act I. Sc. 2.

120. _Rousseau’s Emilius._ Published 1762.

_La Place._ Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace (1749–1827), the great astronomer and mathematician.

_Lavoisier._ Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794), the founder of modern chemistry: he was guillotined in the Revolution.

_Cuvier._ Leopold Christian Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier, better known as Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), the great zoologist and reformer in Education.

_Houdon._ Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), one of the greatest of French sculptors. Of his statue of St. Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian order, Pope Clement XIV. said that ‘it would speak were it not for the Carthusian rule of silence.’

121. _Laborious foolery._ Cf. vol. VIII. p. 554, Hazlitt’s letter to _The Morning Chronicle_ on Modern Comedy.

_Horace Vernet._ Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789–1863), the ‘Paul Delaroche of military painting.’

122. _Good haters._ See vol. VII. _The Plain Speaker_, note to p. 180.

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