[Footnote 1: This the Athenians did in a peculiar manner, by the words [Greek: kalokagathus] and [Greek: kalokagathia].] ENDNOTE G. '_As when Brutus rose_,' etc.--P. 18. Cicero himself describes this fact--'Cassare interfecto--statim cruentum alte extollens M. Brutus pugionem, Ciceronem nominatim exclamavit, atque ei recuperatam libertatem est gratulatus.' --_Cic. Philipp_. ii. 12. ENDNOTE H. '_Where Virtue rising from the awful depth Of Truth's mysterious bosom_,' etc.--P. 20. According to the opinion of those who assert moral obligation to be founded on an immutable and universal law; and that which is usually called the moral sense, to be determined by the peculiar temper of the imagination and the earliest associations of ideas. ENDNOTE I. '_Lyceum_.'--P. 21. The school of Aristotle. ENDNOTE J. '_Academus_.'--P. 21. The school of Plato. ENDNOTE K. '_Ilissus_.'--P. 21. One of the rivers on which Athens was situated. Plato, in some of his finest dialogues, lays the scene of the conversation with Socrates on its banks. * * * * * BOOK SECOND. ENDNOTE L '_At last the Muses rose_,' etc.--P. 22. About the age of Hugh Capet, founder of the third race of French kings, the poets of Provence were in high reputation; a sort of strolling bards or rhapsodists, who went about the courts of princes and noblemen, entertaining them at festivals with music and poetry. They attempted both the epic, ode, and satire; and abounded in a wild and fantastic vein of fable, partly allegorical, and partly founded on traditionary legends of the Saracen wars. These were the rudiments of Italian poetry. But their taste and composition must have been extremely barbarous, as we may judge by those who followed the turn of their fable in much politer times; such as Boiardo, Bernardo, Tasso, Ariosto, etc. ENDNOTE M. '_Valclusa_.'--P. 22. The famous retreat of Francisco Petrarcha, the father of Italian poetry, and his mistress, Laura, a lady of Avignon. ENDNOTE N. '_Arno_.'--P. 22. The river which runs by Florence, the birth-place of Dante and Boccaccio. ENDNOTE O. '_Parthenope_.'--P. 23. Or Naples, the birth-place of Sannazaro. The great Torquato Tasso was born at Sorrento in the kingdom of Naples. ENDNOTE P. '_The rage Of dire ambition_,' etc.--P. 23. This relates to the cruel wars among the republics of Italy, and abominable politics of its little princes, about the fifteenth century. These, at last, in conjunction with the papal power, entirely extinguished the spirit of liberty in that country, and established that abuse of the fine arts which has been since propagated over all Europe. ENDNOTE Q. '_Thus from their guardians torn, the tender arts_,' etc.--P. 23.