[575] “The safety of the people is the supreme law.” [576] “Mine.” [577] “Yours.” [578] He alludes to 1 Kings x. 19, 30: “The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.” The same verses are repeated in 1 Chronicles ix. 18, 19. [579] “We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”—1 _Timothy_ i. 8. [580] A boast. [581] In our version it is thus rendered: “Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”—_Ephesians_ iv. 26. [582] Sen. De Ira i. 1. [583] “In your patience possess ye your souls.”—_Luke_ xvi. 19. [584] “And leave their lives in the wound.” The quotation is from Virgil’s Georgics, iv. 238. [585] Susceptibility upon. [586] “A thicker covering for his honor.” [587] Pointed and peculiarly appropriate to the party attacked. [588] “Ordinary abuse.” [589] “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.”—_Ecclesiastes_ i. 9, 10. [590] In his Phædo. [591] “There is no remembrance of former things: neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come, with those that shall come hereafter.”—_Ecclesiastes_ i. 11. [592] “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”—1 _Kings_ xvii. 1. “And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.”—1 _Kings_ xviii. 1. [593] Confined to a limited space. [594] The whole of the continent of America then discovered is included under this name. [595] Limited. [596] _Vide_ Plat. Tim. iii. 24, seq. [597] Mach. Disc. Sop. Liv. ii. 2. [598] Sabinianus of Volaterra was elected Bishop of Rome on the death of Gregory the Great, A. D. 604. He was of an avaricious disposition, and thereby incurred the popular hatred. He died in eighteen months after his election. [599] This Cicero speaks of as “the great year of the mathematicians.” “On the Nature of the Gods,” B. 4, ch. 20. By some it was supposed to occur after a period of 12,954 years, while, according to others, it was of 25,920 years’ duration.—_Plat. Tim._ iii. 38, seq. [600] Conceit. [601] Observed. [602] A curious fancy or odd conceit. [603] The followers of Arminius, or James Harmensen, a celebrated divine of the 16th and 17th centuries. Though called a heresy by Bacon, his opinions have been for two centuries, and still are, held by a large portion of the Church of England.