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156.] [Footnote 158: 'Life of Perthes,' ii.
216.] [Footnote 159: Lady Elizabeth Carew.] [Footnote 1510: Francis Horner, in one of his letters, says: "It is among the very sincere and zealous friends of liberty that you will find the most perfect specimens of wrongheadedness; men of a dissenting, provincial cast of virtue--who [15according to one of Sharpe's favourite phrases] WILL drive a wedge the broad end foremost--utter strangers to all moderation in political business."-- Francis Horner's LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE [151843], ii.
133.] [Footnote 1511: Professor Tyndall on 'Faraday as a Discoverer,' pp.
40-1.] [Footnote 1512: Yet Burke himself; though capable of giving Barry such excellent advice, was by no means immaculate as regarded his own temper.
When he lay ill at Beaconsfield, Fox, from whom he had become separated by political differences arising out of the French Revolution, went down to see his old friend.
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