]
[Footnote: 49. "When the clear star has shone upon the sailors, the troubled
water flows down from the rocks, the winds fall, the clouds fade away, and,
since they (Castor and Pollux) have so willed it, the threatening waves settle
on the deep."--HORACE, Odes, I., 12, 27-32.]
[Footnote: 50. Opposuit natura. Nature opposed.]
[Footnote: 51. no theory. Select other instances of Burke's impatience with
fine-spun theories in statescraft]
[Footnote: 52. Republic of Plato Utopia of More Ideal states
Consult the Century Dictionary]
[Footnote: 53.
"And the DULL swain
Treads daily on it with his clouted shoon"
--MILTON'S Comus, 6, 34, 35.]
[Footnote: 54. the year 1763 The date marks the beginning of the active struggle
between England and the American colonies. The Stamp Act was the first definite
step taken by the English Parliament in the attempt to tax the colonies without
their consent.]
[Footnote: 55. legal competency. This had been practically recognized by
Parliament prior to the passage of the Stamp Act. In Massachusetts the Colonial
Assembly had made grants from year to year to the governor, both for his salary
and the incidental expenses of his office.
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