[Charles Vallancey (1721-1812), general in the Royal Engineers, published an "Essay on the Celtic Language," etc., in 1782. "The language [the Iberno-Celtic]," he writes (p. 4), "we are now going to explain, had such an affinity with the Punic, that it may be said to have been, in a great degree, the language of Hanibal (_sic_), Hamilcar, and of Asdrubal." Sir Laurence Parsons (1758-1841), second Earl of Rosse, represented the University of Dublin 1782-90, and afterwards King's County, in the Irish House of Commons. He was an opponent of the Union. In a pamphlet entitled _Defence of the Antient History of Ireland_, published in 1795, he maintains (p. 158) "that the Carthaginian and the Irish language being originally the same, either the Carthaginians must have been descended from the Irish, or the Irish from the Carthaginians."] {338}[425] The Portuguese proverb says that "hell is paved with good intentions."--[See _Vision of Judgment_, stanza xxxvii. line 8, _Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 499, note 2.] [ib] _At least the sharp faints of that "burning marle."_--[MS. erased.] {339}[426] ["The Nervii marched to the number of sixty thousand, and fell upon Cæsar, as he was fortifying his camp, and had not the least notion of so sudden an attack. They first routed his cavalry, and then surrounded the twelfth and the seventh legions, and killed all the officers. Had not Cæsar snatched a buckler from one of his own men, forced his way through the combatants before him, and rushed upon the barbarians; or had not the tenth legion, seeing his danger, ran from the heights where they were posted, and mowed down the enemy's ranks, not one Roman would have survived the battle."--Plutarch, _Cæsar_, Langhorne's translation, 1838, p. 502.] [427] ["As near a field of corn, a stubborn ass ... E'en so great Ajax son of Telamon." _The Iliad_, Lord Derby's translation, bk. xi. lines 639, 645.] {339}[ic] _Nor care a single damn about his corps_.--[MS. erased.] [428] ["N'apercevant plus le commandant du corps dont je faisais partie, et ignorant où je devais porter mes pas, je crus reconnaître le lieu où le rempart était situé; on y faisait un feu assez vif, que je jugeai être celui ... du général-major de Lascy."--_Hist. de la Nouvelle Russie_, ii. 210. The speaker is the Duc de Richelieu. See, for original, his _Journal de mon Voyage, etc., Soc. Imp. d'Hist. de Russie_, tom. liv. p. 179] [id] _For he was dizzy, busy, and his blood_ _Lightening along his veins, and where he heard_ _The liveliest fire, and saw the fiercest flood_ _Of Friar Bacon's mild discovery, shared_ _By Turks and Christians equally, he could_ _No longer now resist the attraction of gunpowder_ _But flew to where the merry orchestra played louder_.--[MS. erased.]