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CHAPTER XII--THE DISCIPLINE OF EXPERIENCE
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151 [12Ed.

1858].] [Footnote 124: Lord Cockburn's 'Memorials,' pp.

25-6.] [Footnote 125: From a letter of Canon Moseley, read at a Memorial Meeting held shortly after the death of the late Lord Herbert of Lea.] [Footnote 126: Izaak Walton's 'Life of George Herbert.'] [Footnote 127: Stanley's 'Life and Letters of Dr.Arnold,' i.

33.] [Footnote 128: Philip de Comines gives a curious illustration of the subservient, though enforced, imitation of Philip, Duke of Burgundy, by his courtiers.

When that prince fell ill, and had his head shaved, he ordered that all his nobles, five hundred in number, should in like manner shave their heads; and one of them, Pierre de Hagenbach, to prove his devotion, no sooner caught sight of an unshaven nobleman, than he forthwith had him seized and carried off to the barber!--Philip de Comines [12Bohn's Ed.], p.


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