"No husband shall kiss his wife, and no mother shall kiss her child on the Sabbath day."--Note 135. Ibid. III. 253; from Rev. C. J. Lyon's "St. Andrews," vol. I. 458, with regard to government of a colony. (It would have been satisfactory if Mr. Lyon had given his authority.)--Tr. "(Sept. 22, 1649) The quhilk day the Sessioune caused mak this act, that ther sould be no pypers at brydels," etc.--Ibid. III. 258, note 153. In 1719, the Presbytery of Edinburgh indignantly declares: "Yea, some have arrived at that height of impiety, as not to be ashamed of washing in waters, and swimming in rivers upon the holy Sabbath."--Note 187. Ibid. III. 266. "I think David had never so sweet a time as then, when he was pursued as a partridge by his son Absalom."--Note 190. Gray's "Great and Precious Promises." See the whole of Chapter III. vol. III. in which Buckle has described, by similar quotations, the condition of Scotland, chiefly in the seventeenth century.] [Footnote 224: See, in Richardson, Swift, and Fielding, but particularly in Hogarth, the delineation of brutish debauchery.] [Footnote 225: The king was playing at backgammen; a doubtful throw occurs: "Ah, here is Grammont, who'll decide for us; Grammont, come and decide. Sire, you have lost. What: you do not yet know."... "Ah, sire, if the throw had been merely doubtful, these gentlemen would not have failed to say you had won."] [Footnote 226: Hamilton says of Grammont, "He sought out the unfortunate only to succor them."] [Footnote 227: This saying sounds strange after the horrors of the Commune.--Tr.] [Footnote 228: A Spanish author, who continued and imitated Cervantes's "Don Quixote."] [Footnote 229: A work by Scarron. "Hudibras," edited Z. Grey, 1801, 2 Vols. I. Canto 1. line 289, says also: "For as Æneas bore his sire Upon his shoulders through the fire. Our knight did bear no less a pack Of his own buttocks on his back."] [Footnote 230: "Hudibras," part I. canto 1. lines 241-250.] [Footnote 231: "Hudibras," part I. canto 1. lines 253-280.] [Footnote 232: Ibid, lines 375-386.] [Footnote 233: "Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat. Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate; For though the thesis which thou lay'st Be true ad amussim as thou say'st (For that bear-baiting should appear Jure divino lawfuller Than Synods are, thou do'st deny, Totidem verbis; so do I), Yet there is fallacy in this; For if by sly homœosis, Tussis pro crepitu, an art . . . . . . . . . . . Thou wouldst sophistically imply, Both are unlawful, I deny." Part I. canto 1. lines 821-834.] [Footnote 234: "The Life of Clarendon," edited by himself, new ed. 1827, 3 vols, I. 378.] [Footnote 235: Ibid. I. 379.] [Footnote 236: "The Life of Clarendon," edited by himself, new ed. 1827, 3 vols. I. 380.]