[503] Giving no false color to the degree of success which has attended the prosecution of the suit. [504] To have little effect. [505] To this extent. [506] Of the information. [507] “Ask what is exorbitant, that you may obtain what is moderate.” [508] This formed the first essay in the earliest edition of the work. [509] Attentively. [510] Vapid: without taste or spirit. [511] “Studies become habits.” [512] “Splitters of cummin-seeds;” or, as we now say, “splitters of straws,” or “hairs.” Butler says of Hudibras:— “He could distinguish and divide A hair ’twixt south and southwest side.” [513] Causes one side to preponderate. [514] “The common father.” [515] “As one of us.” Henry the Third of France, favoring the league formed by the Duke of Guise and Cardinal De Lorraine against the Protestants, soon found that, through the adoption of that policy, he had forfeited the respect of his subjects. [516] See a note to Essay 15. [517] Of Castile. She was the wife of Ferdinand of Arragon, and was the patroness of Columbus. [518] The words in our version are: “He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.—_Ecclesiastes_ xi. 1. [519] Exact in the extreme. Point-de-vice was originally the name of a kind of lace of very fine pattern. [520] “Appearances resembling virtues.” [521] “A good name is like sweet-smelling ointment.” The words in our version are, “A good name is better than precious ointment.—_Ecclesiastes_ vii. 1. [522] “Disregarding _his own_ conscience.” [523] “To instruct under the form of praise.” [524] “The worst kind of enemies are those who flatter.” [525] A pimple filled with “pus,” or “purulent matter.” The word is still used in the east of England. [526] The words in our version are: “He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.”—_Proverbs_ xxvii. 14. [527] In other words, to show what we call an _esprit de corps_. [528] Theologians. [529] 2 Cor. xi. 23. [530] “I will magnify my apostleship.” He alludes to the words in Romans xi. 13: “Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.” [531] Vaunting, or boasting. [532] Noise. We have a corresponding proverb: “Great cry and little wool.” [533] A high or good opinion. [534] _Vide_ Liv. xxxvii. 48. [535] By express command. [536] “Those who write books on despising glory, set their names in the title-page.” He quotes from Cicero’s “Tusculanæ Disputationes,” b. i. c. 15, whose words are; “Quid nostri philosophi? Nonne in his libris ipsis, quos scribunt de contemnendâ gloriâ, sua nomina inscribunt.”—“What do our philosophers do? Do they not, in those very books which they write on despising glory, set their names in the title-page?” [537] Pliny the Younger, the nephew of the elder Pliny, the naturalist.