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98. Hanna's Life of Chalmers, iv. pp. 37-46.

99. Ovid, Met. i. 5.—Chaos, before sea and land and all-covering skies.

100. Excursion, v.

101. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, i. p. 150, where an adequate portion of the correspondence is to be found.

102. He wrote an extremely graphic account of their ascent of Mount Etna, which has since found a place in Murray's handbook for Sicily.

103. Of the first edition some 1500 or 1750 copies were sold.

104. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, i. p. 172.

105. Carlyle wrote to Emerson (Feb. 8, 1839): One of the strangest things about these New England Orations (Emerson's) is a fact I have heard, but not yet seen, that a certain W. Gladstone, an Oxford crack scholar, tory M.P., and devout churchman of great talent and hope, has contrived to insert a piece of you (first Oration it must be) in a work of his own on Church and State, which, makes some figure at present! I know him for a solid, serious, silent-minded man; but how with his Coleridge shovel-hattism he has contrived to relate himself to you, there is the mystery. True men of all creeds, it would seem, are brothers.—Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, i. p. 217.

There is more than one reference to Emerson in Mr. Gladstone's book, e.g. i. pp. 25, 130.

106. The letters are given in full in Gleanings, vii. p. 106. See also Trevelyan's Macaulay, chap. viii.

107. Chapter of Autobiography, 1868.—Gleanings, vii. p. 115.

108. Aeneid, vi. 896. But through the ivory gate the shades send to the upper air apparitions that do but cheat us.

109. Chapter i. p. 5.

110. Inferno, xix. 115-7.

111. It was translated into German and published, with a preface by Tholuck, in 1843.