[Footnote 85: He appears to have had in his memory Voltaire's lively account of Zadig's learning: "Il savait de la métaphysique ce qu'on en a su dans tous les âges,--c'est à dire, fort peu de chose," &c.] [Footnote 86: The doctrine of Hume, who resolves all virtue into sentiment.--See his "Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals."] [Footnote 87: See his Letter to Anthony Collins, 1703-4, where he speaks of "those sharp heads, which were for damning his book, because of its discouraging the staple commodity of the place, which in his time was called _hogs' shearing_."] [Footnote 88: Hard, "Discourses on Poetical Imitation."] [Footnote 89: Prologue to the University of Oxford.] [Footnote 90: "'Tis a quality very observable in human nature, that any opposition which does not entirely discourage and intimidate us, has rather a contrary effect, and inspires us with a more than ordinary grandeur and magnanimity. In collecting our force to overcome the opposition, we invigorate the soul, and give it an elevation with which otherwise it would never have been acquainted."--Hume, _Treatise of Human Nature._] [Footnote 91: "The colour of our whole life is generally such as the three or four first years in which we are our own masters make it."--Cowper.] [Footnote 92: "I refer to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq., Professor of Pugilism, who I trust still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour and athletic, as well as mental, accomplishments."--_Note on Don Juan, Canto II_.] [Footnote 93: Thus addressed always by Lord Byron, but without any right to the distinction.] [Footnote 94: The Journal entitled by himself "Detached Thoughts."] [Footnote 95: Few philosophers, however, have been so indulgent to the pride of birth as Rousseau.--"S'il est un orgueil pardonnable (he says) après celui qui se tire du mérite personnel, c'est celui qui se tire de la naissance."--_Confess._] [Footnote 96: This gentleman, who took orders in the year 1814, is the author of a spirited translation of Juvenal, and of other works of distinguished merit. He was long in correspondence with Lord Byron, and to him I am indebted for some interesting letters of his noble friend, which will be given in the course of the following pages.] [Footnote 97: He had also, at one time, as appears from an anecdote preserved by Spence, some thoughts of burying this dog in his garden, and placing a monument over him, with the inscription, "Oh, rare Bounce!" In speaking of the members of Rousseau's domestic establishment, Hume says, "She (Therése) governs him as absolutely as a nurse does a child. In her absence, his dog has acquired that ascendant. His affection for that creature is beyond all expression or conception."--_Private Correspondence._ See an instance which he gives of this dog's influence over the philosopher, p. 143.