And there is a mortification of the soul as well as of the body, in which the first symptoms of returning hope are pain and anguish.” Sewell, Sermons to Young Men (Sermon xii.).
P. 170, l. 6. Before the time of trial comes the man deliberately makes his Moral Choice to act rightly; but, at the moment of acting, the powerful strain of desire makes him contravene this choice: his Will does not act in accordance with the affirmation or negation of his Reason. His actions are therefore of the mixed kind. See Book III. chap. i., and note on page 128.
P. 171, l. 17. Let a man be punctual on principle to any one engagement in the day, and he must, as a matter of course, keep all his others in their due places relatively to this one; and so will often wear an appearance of being needlessly punctilious in trifles.
P. 172, l. 21.
Because he is destitute of these minor springs of action, which are intended to supply the defects of the higher principle.
See Bishop But1er's first Sermon on Compassion, and the conclusion of note on p. 129.
P. 179, l. 4.
Abandoning Bekker's punctuation and reading μὴ ἀγαθόν; yields a better sense.
“Why will he wait it on the supposition that it is not good? He can live even with Pain: because,” etc.
P. 179, l. 25. φεύγει may be taken perhaps as equivalent to φεύγουσι and so balance χαίρουσι. But compare Chapter viii. (Bekker).
P. 183, l. 6. “Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law.” Romans xiii. 8.
P. 183, l. 20. κεραμεῖς. The Proverb in full is a line from Hesiod,
καὶ κεραμεὺς κεραμεῖ κοτέει καὶ τέκτονι τέκτων.
P. 184, l. 33. In this sense, therefore, is it sung of Mrs. Gilpin, that she
“two stone bottles found,
To hold the liquor that she loved,
And keep it safe and sound.”
P. 187, l. 24. Cardwell's reading, ταύτῃ γὰρ ὅμοιοι καὶ τὰ λοιπά, is here adopted, as yielding a better sense than Bekker's.
P. 192, l. 34. The Great man will have a right to look for more Friendship than he bestows; but the Good man can feel Friendship only for, and in proportion to, the goodness of the other.
P. 195, l. 12. See note on page 68, l.8.
P. 202, l. 28. See I. Topics, Chap. v. on the various senses of ταύτον.
P. 203, l. 35. “For the mutual society, help, and comfort that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity.”
