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did not compel them to treasure up in their memory the offensive
language which might be addressed to them by a passionate adversary,
nor to conceive that it left a stain which could only be washed away
by blood. Even for real and deep injuries they were commonly willing
to accept a pecuniary compensation."
214 "The boon of sleep."--Milton
215 "All else of nature's common gift partake:
Unhappy Dido was alone awake."
--Dryden's Virgil, iv. 767.
216 --The king of Crete: Idomeneus.
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17 --Soft wool within, i e. a kind of woollen stuffing, pressed in
between the straps, to protect the head, and make the helmet fit
close.
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18 "All the circumstances of this action--the night, Rhesus buried in a
profound sleep, and Diomede with the sword in his hand hanging over
the head of that prince--furnished Homer with the idea of this
fiction, which represents Rhesus lying fast asleep, and, as it were,
beholding his enemy in a dream, plunging the sword into his bosom.
This image is very natural; for a man in his condition awakes no
farther than to see confusedly what environs him, and to think it
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