[494] [In respect of suavity and forbearance Melancthon was the counterpart of Luther. John Arrowsmith (1602-1657), in his _Tractica Sacra_, describes him as "Vir in quo cum pietate doctrina, et cum utrâque candor certavit."] [ix] _Like Moses or like Cobbett who have ne'er._ Moses and Cobbet proclaim themselves the "meekest of men." See their writings.--[MS.] _Like Moses who was "very meek" had ne'er_.--[MS. erased.] {381}[495] [See his "Correspondance avec L'Impératrice de Russie," _Oeuvres Complètes_ de Voltaire, 1836, x. 393-477. M. Waliszewski, in his _Story of a Throne_, 1895, i. 224, has gathered a handful of these flowers of speech: "She is the chief person in the world.... She is the fire and life of nations.... She is a saint.... She is above all saints.... She is equal to the mother of God.... She is the divinity of the North.--_Te Catherinam laudamus, te Dominam confitemur, etc., etc._"] [iy] _Of everything that ever cursed a nation._--[_MS. erased._] [496] ["It is still more difficult to say which form of government is the _worst_--all are so bad. As for democracy, it is the worst of the whole; for what is (_in fact_) democracy?--an Aristocracy of Blackguards."--See "My Dictionary" (May 1, 1821), _Letters_, 1901, v. 405, 406.] {382}[iz] _Though priests and slaves may join the servile cry_.--[_MS. erased._] [497] In Greece I never saw or heard these animals; but among the ruins of Ephesus I have heard them by hundreds. [See _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza cliii. line 6, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 441; and _Siege of Corinth_, line 329, ibid., 1900, iii. 462, note 1.] [ja] _Whereas the others hunt for rascal spiders._--[_MS. erased._] [jb] _Which still are strongly fluttering to be free_.--[_MS. erased._] {383}[498] [Compare _The Age of Bronze_, line 576, sq., _Poetical Works_, 1901, v. 570.] {384}[499] [Nadir Shah, or Thamas Kouli Khan, born November, 1688, invaded India, 1739-40, was assassinated June 19, 1747.] [jc] ---- _went mad and was_ _Killed because what he swallowed would not pass_.--[MS. erased.] [500] He was killed in a conspiracy, after his temper had been exasperated by his extreme costivity to a degree of insanity. [To such a height had his madness (attributed to _melancholia_ produced by dropsy) attained, that he actually ordered the Afghan chiefs to rise suddenly upon the Persian guard, and seize the ... chief nobles; but the project being discovered, the intended victims conspired in turn, and a body of them, including Nadir's guard, and the chief of his own tribe of Afshar, entered his tent at midnight, and, after a moment's involuntary pause--when challenged by the deep voice at which they had so often trembled--rushed upon the king, who being brought to the ground by a sabre-stroke, begged for life, and attempted to rise, but soon expired beneath the repeated blows of the conspirators.--_The Indian Empire_, by R. Montgomery Martin (1857), i. 172.]