_ ii. 249.]
[Footnote 10: _Ib._ ii. 265.]
[Footnote 11: _Ib._ ii. 266.]
[Footnote 12: _Conseils a un Jeune Homme_, i. 124.]
[Footnote 13: _OEuv._ ii. 252.]
[Footnote 14: _Ib._ ii. 272.]
[Footnote 15: _Memoires de Marmontel_, vol. i. 189.]
[Footnote 16: The reader of Marmontel's _Memoires_ will remember the
extraordinary and grotesque circumstances under which a younger brother
of Mirabeau, (of _l'ami des hommes_, that is) appealed to the memory of
Vauvenargues. See vol. i. 256-260.]
[Footnote 17: _OEuv._ i. 225-232.]
[Footnote 18: _Letter to Saint-Vincens_, ii. 146.]
[Footnote 19: No. 318.]
[Footnote 20: Napoleon said on some occasion, '_Il faut vouloir vivre et
savoir mourir_.' M. Littre prefaces the third volume of that heroic
monument of learning and industry, his _Dictionary of the French
Language_, by the words: 'He who wishes to employ his life seriously
ought always to act as if he had long to live, and to govern himself as
if he would have soon to die.']
[Footnote 21: No. 223.]
[Footnote 22: No. 300.]
[Footnote 23: No. 264.]
[Footnote 24: _Reflexions Critiques sur quelques Poetes_, i. 237.]
[Footnote 25: _OEuv_. i. 248.]
[Footnote 26: _Reflexions Critiques sur quelques Poetes_, i. 238.]
[Footnote 27: _OEuv._ i. 243.]
[Footnote 28: _OEuv._ i. 275.]
[Footnote 29: _Correspondance_. _OEuv._ ii. 131, 207.]
[Footnote 30: Long-winded and tortuous and difficult to seize as
Shaftesbury is as a whole, in detached sentences he shows marked
aphoristic quality; _e.
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