13
Alison, i. 22.
14
Mahon, i. 21, 22.
15
Lectures in Modern History, delivered in the University of Cambridge, (Lecture xxiii.)
16
Alison, ii. p. 300.
17
"Even the great William," says Professor Smyth, "trained up amid a life of difficulties and war, with an intrepid heart and a sound understanding, was able only to stay the enterprises of Louis; successfully to resist, but not to humble him. It was for Marlborough to teach that unprincipled monarch the danger of ambition, and the instability of human grandeur; it was for Marlborough to disturb his dreams of pleasure and of pride, by filling them with spectres of terror and images of desolation." The lecture from which this is taken is well worthy of a careful perusal.
18
Alison, ii. p. 347.
19
In Sir James Stephen's Lectures on the History of France, just published, there is an admirable and elaborate portraiture of Louis XIV. If the rest of the work is equal to this portion, which is all that we have as yet been able to examine, Cambridge has cause to congratulate herself on the accession of so accomplished and able a professor of modern history.
20
Alison, i. p. 108.
21
Alison, i. p. 92-3.
22
Alison, i. p. 125.
23
Alison, i. p. 159.
24
Ibid. p. 187.
25
Ibid. p. 141.
26
Alison, i. 247.
27
Alison, i. 277, 278.
28
Ibid. p. 287.
29
Ibid. p. 330.
30
Alison, i. 406.
31
Ibid. p. 419.
32
Ibid. p. 423.
33
Ibid. p. 448.
34
Alison, i. 448.
35
Alison, ii. 125.
36
Alison, vol. ii. p. 185, note.
37
Ibid. vol. ii. p. 194.