[107] 'North Briton:' the famous paper conducted by Wilkes.
[108] 'Lyttelton and West:' George Lord Lyttelton, author of the
history of Henry II. and Gilbert West, the translator of Pindar, both
originally sceptical, but both converted,--the one, the author of a
Dissertation on Paul's conversion; the other, of a book on the
resurrection of Christ.
[109] 'Hill,' a protege of Lord Bute's. See a note upon 'The Rescind.'
[110] 'Home:' John Home, another of Lord Bute's proteges.
[111] 'Laureate:' William Whitehead, Laureate after C. Cibber, who had
somehow provoked Churchill.
[112] 'White rose:' The emblem of the Jacobites, a white rose, was worn
by them, in honour of the young Pretender's birthday, on the 10th of
June.
[113] 'Choice plant:' Tobacco.
[114] 'That year:' the year 1745.
[115] 'Darling son:' Bute.
[116] 'Peace:' that of 1763, abused by all the Opposition.
AN EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HOGARTH.[117]
Amongst the sons of men how few are known
Who dare be just to merit not their own!
Superior virtue and superior sense,
To knaves and fools, will always give offence;
Nay, men of real worth can scarcely bear,
So nice is jealousy, a rival there.
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