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Peacock, Thomas Love

English fiction -- 19th century; Orangutans -- Fiction; Satire

SOLE ADVOCATE OF A DISCOUNTENANCED TRUTH.’—MILTON: _The Doctrine and
  Discipline of Divorce_.

Footnote 76:

  Ιλ. Ζ. 261.

Footnote 77:

  The words in italics are Lord Monboddo’s: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol.
  iii. preface, p. 79.

Footnote 78:

            ῥιζῃ μεν μελαν ἐστι, γαλακτι δε εἰκελον ἀνθος,
            ΜΩΛΥ δε μιν καλεουσι θεοι, χαλεπον δε τ’ ὀρυσσειν
            θνητοις ἀνθρωποισι.

Footnote 79:

  The reader who is desirous of elucidating the mysteries of the words
  and phrases marked in italics in this chapter may consult the German
  works of Professor Kant, or Professor Born’s Latin translation of
  them, or M. Villar’s _Philosophie de Kant, ou Principes fondamentaux
  de la Philosophie Transcendentale_; or the first article of the second
  number of the _Edinburgh Review_, or the article ‘Kant,’ in the
  _Encyclopaedia Londinensis_, or Sir William Drummond’s _Academical
  Questions_, book ii. chap. 9.

Footnote 80:

  Πρωτευς Ὀλβοδοτης, _Proteus the giver of riches_, certainly deserves a
  place among the _Lares_ of every poetical and political turncoat.

Footnote 81:

  See the Βατραχοι of Aristophanes.

Footnote 82:

  informi limo glaucaque exponit in ulva.

Footnote 83:

  _Coleridge’s Lay Sermon_, p. 10.

Footnote 84:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 85:

  _Ibid._ p. 21.

Footnote 86:

  _Ibid._ p. 25.

Footnote 87:

  _Ibid._ p. 27.

Footnote 88:

  _Ibid._ pp. 45, 46 (where the reader may find in a note the two worst
  jokes that ever were cracked).

Footnote 89:

  _Ibid._ p. 17.

Footnote 90:

  ‘Some travellers speak of his strength as wonderful; greater they say,
  than that of ten men such as we.’—_Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p.
  105.

Footnote 91:

  _Esquisse d’un Tableau historique des Progrès de l’Esprit humain._

Footnote 92:

  _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 139.

Footnote 93:

  _Ibid._ p. 193.

Footnote 94:

  _Ibid._ p. 191.

Footnote 95:

  _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 181.

Footnote 96:

  _Ibid._ p. 182.

Footnote 97:

  Cottle’s Edda, or, as the author calls it, _Translation_ of the Edda,
  which is a misnomer.

Footnote 98:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 237.

Footnote 99:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 100:

  _Ibid._ p. 252.

Footnote 101:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 252.

Footnote 102:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 103:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 226.

Footnote 104:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 105:

  _Ibid._ p. 236.

Footnote 106:

  _Ibid._ p. 226.

Footnote 107:

  _Ibid._ p. 228.

Footnote 108:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 109:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 273, _et passim_.

Footnote 110:

  _Ibid._ p. 258.

Footnote 111:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 112:

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Melincourt : $b or, Sir Oran Haut-Ton

Peacock, Thomas Love

English fiction -- 19th century; Orangutans -- Fiction; Satire

SOLE ADVOCATE OF A DISCOUNTENANCED TRUTH.’—MILTON: _The Doctrine and
  Discipline of Divorce_.

Footnote 76:

  Ιλ. Ζ. 261.

Footnote 77:

  The words in italics are Lord Monboddo’s: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol.
  iii. preface, p. 79.

Footnote 78:

            ῥιζῃ μεν μελαν ἐστι, γαλακτι δε εἰκελον ἀνθος,
            ΜΩΛΥ δε μιν καλεουσι θεοι, χαλεπον δε τ’ ὀρυσσειν
            θνητοις ἀνθρωποισι.

Footnote 79:

  The reader who is desirous of elucidating the mysteries of the words
  and phrases marked in italics in this chapter may consult the German
  works of Professor Kant, or Professor Born’s Latin translation of
  them, or M. Villar’s _Philosophie de Kant, ou Principes fondamentaux
  de la Philosophie Transcendentale_; or the first article of the second
  number of the _Edinburgh Review_, or the article ‘Kant,’ in the
  _Encyclopaedia Londinensis_, or Sir William Drummond’s _Academical
  Questions_, book ii. chap. 9.

Footnote 80:

  Πρωτευς Ὀλβοδοτης, _Proteus the giver of riches_, certainly deserves a
  place among the _Lares_ of every poetical and political turncoat.

Footnote 81:

  See the Βατραχοι of Aristophanes.

Footnote 82:

  informi limo glaucaque exponit in ulva.

Footnote 83:

  _Coleridge’s Lay Sermon_, p. 10.

Footnote 84:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 85:

  _Ibid._ p. 21.

Footnote 86:

  _Ibid._ p. 25.

Footnote 87:

  _Ibid._ p. 27.

Footnote 88:

  _Ibid._ pp. 45, 46 (where the reader may find in a note the two worst
  jokes that ever were cracked).

Footnote 89:

  _Ibid._ p. 17.

Footnote 90:

  ‘Some travellers speak of his strength as wonderful; greater they say,
  than that of ten men such as we.’—_Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p.
  105.

Footnote 91:

  _Esquisse d’un Tableau historique des Progrès de l’Esprit humain._

Footnote 92:

  _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 139.

Footnote 93:

  _Ibid._ p. 193.

Footnote 94:

  _Ibid._ p. 191.

Footnote 95:

  _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. iii. p. 181.

Footnote 96:

  _Ibid._ p. 182.

Footnote 97:

  Cottle’s Edda, or, as the author calls it, _Translation_ of the Edda,
  which is a misnomer.

Footnote 98:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 237.

Footnote 99:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 100:

  _Ibid._ p. 252.

Footnote 101:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 252.

Footnote 102:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 103:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 226.

Footnote 104:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 105:

  _Ibid._ p. 236.

Footnote 106:

  _Ibid._ p. 226.

Footnote 107:

  _Ibid._ p. 228.

Footnote 108:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 109:

  _Quarterly Review_, No. xxxi. p. 273, _et passim_.

Footnote 110:

  _Ibid._ p. 258.

Footnote 111:

  _Ibid._

Footnote 112:

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