第153章 CHAPTER XIII. - CHARACTER - THE TRUE GENTLEMAN.(11

(13) Within the last few months, Mr. Charles Read, a gentleman curious in matters of Protestant antiquarianism in France, has discovered one of the ovens in which Palissy baked his chefs- d'oeuvre. Several moulds of faces, plants, animals, &c., were dug up in a good state of preservation, bearing his well-known stamp. It is situated under the gallery of the Louvre, in the Place du Carrousel.

(14) D'Aubigne, 'Histoire Universelle.' The historian adds, "Voyez l'impudence de ce bilistre! vous diriez qu'il auroit lu ce vers de Seneque: 'On ne peut contraindre celui qui sait mourir: QUI MORI SCIT, cogi nescit.'"(15) The subject of Palissy's life and labours has been ably and elaborately treated by Professor Morley in his well-known work. In the above brief narrative we have for the most part followed Palissy's own account of his experiments as given in his 'Art de Terre.'

(16) "Almighty God, the great Creator, Has changed a goldmaker to a potter."(17) The whole of the Chinese and Japanese porcelain was formerly known as Indian porcelain - probably because it was first brought by the Portuguese from India to Europe, after the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama.

(18) 'Wedgwood: an Address delivered at Burslem, Oct. 26th, 1863.' By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.

(19) It was characteristic of Mr. Hume, that, during his professional voyages between England and India, he should diligently apply his spare time to the study of navigation and seamanship; and many years after, it proved of use to him in a remarkable manner. In 1825, when on his passage from London to Leith by a sailing smack, the vessel had scarcely cleared the mouth of the Thames when a sudden storm came on, she was driven out of her course, and, in the darkness of the night, she struck on the Goodwin Sands. The captain, losing his presence of mind, seemed incapable of giving coherent orders, and it is probable that the vessel would have become a total wreck, had not one of the passengers suddenly taken the command and directed the working of the ship, himself taking the helm while the danger lasted. The vessel was saved, and the stranger was Mr. Hume.

(20) 'Saturday Review,' July 3rd, 1858.

(21) Mrs. Grote's 'Memoir of the Life of Ary Scheffer,' p. 67.

(22) While the sheets of this revised edition are passing through the press, the announcement appears in the local papers of the death of Mr. Jackson at the age of fifty. His last work, completed shortly before his death, was a cantata, entitled 'The Praise of Music.' The above particulars of his early life were communicated by himself to the author several years since, while he was still carrying on his business of a tallow-chandler at Masham.

(23) Mansfield owed nothing to his noble relations, who were poor and uninfluential. His success was the legitimate and logical result of the means which he sedulously employed to secure it. When a boy he rode up from Scotland to London on a pony - taking two months to make the journey. After a course of school and college, he entered upon the profession of the law, and he closed a career of patient and ceaseless labour as Lord Chief Justice of England - the functions of which he is universally admitted to have performed with unsurpassed ability, justice, and honour.

(24) On 'Thought and Action.'

(25) 'Correspondance de Napoleon Ier.,' publiee par ordre de l'Empereur Napoleon III, Paris, 1864.

(26) The recently published correspondence of Napoleon with his brother Joseph, and the Memoirs of the Duke of Ragusa, abundantly confirm this view. The Duke overthrew Napoleon's generals by the superiority of his routine. He used to say that, if he knew anything at all, he knew how to feed an army.

(27) His old gardener. Collingwood's favourite amusement was gardening. Shortly after the battle of Trafalgar a brother admiral called upon him, and, after searching for his lordship all over the garden, he at last discovered him, with old Scott, in the bottom of a deep trench which they were busily employed in digging.

(28) Article in the 'Times.'

(29) 'Self-Development: an Address to Students,' by George Ross, M.D., pp. 1-20, reprinted from the 'Medical Circular.' This address, to which we acknowledge our obligations, contains many admirable thoughts on self-culture, is thoroughly healthy in its tone, and well deserves republication in an enlarged form.

(30) 'Saturday Review.'

(31) See the admirable and well-known book, 'The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties.'

(32) Late Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrew's.

(33) A writer in the 'Edinburgh Review' (July, 1859) observes that "the Duke's talents seem never to have developed themselves until some active and practical field for their display was placed immediately before him. He was long described by his Spartan mother, who thought him a dunce, as only 'food for powder.' He gained no sort of distinction, either at Eton or at the French Military College of Angers." It is not improbable that a competitive examination, at this day, might have excluded him from the army.

(34) Correspondent of 'The Times,' 11th June, 1863.

(35) Robertson's 'Life and Letters,' i. 258.

(36) On the 11th January, 1866.

(37) Brown's 'Horae Subsecivae.'

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