i.
pp.
330-1.]
[83: _Political Justice_, bk. ii, ch. ii.]
[84: _William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries_, vol. i.
pp.
330-1; Preface to 1st edition, 1799.]
[85: _Hermippus Redivivus_; or _The Sage's Triumph over Old Age
and
the Grave_ (translated from the Latin of Cohausen, with
annotations), 1743. Dr. Johnson pronounced the volume "very
entertaining as an account of the hermetic philosophy and as
furnishing a curious history of the extravagancies of the
human
mind," adding "if it were merely imaginary it would be
nothing at
all."]
[86: _St. Leon_, vol. iv. ch, xiii.]
[87: _St. Leon_, Bk. iv, ch. v.]
[88: _Lives of the Necromancers_, 1834, Preface. "The main purpose
of
this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity
of
the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive
of the most salutary lessons."]
[89: _St. Godwin: A Tale of the 16th, 17th and 18th Century_, by
Count
Reginald de St. Leon, 1800, p. 234.]
[90: Dowden, _Life of Shelley_, vol. i. p. 10.]
[91: Dowden, _Life of Shelley_, vol. i. p. 44.]
[92: Hogg, _Life of Shelley_, vol. i. p. 15.]
[93: Cf. Castle of Lindenberg story in _The Monk_, and ballad of
Alonzo the Brave.
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