[696] Johnson defines manage in this sense to train a horse to graceful action, and quotes Young:—­

     ‘They vault from hunters to the managed steed.’

[697] Of Sir William Forbes of a later generation, Lockhart (Life of Scott, ix. 179) writes as follows:—­’Sir William Forbes, whose banking-house was one of Messrs. Ballantyne’s chief creditors, crowned his generous efforts for Scott’s relief by privately paying the whole of Abud’s demand (nearly L2000) out of his own pocket.’

[698] This scarcity of cash still exists on the islands, in several of which five shilling notes are necessarily issued to have some circulating medium.  If you insist on having change, you must purchase something at a shop.  WALTER SCOTT.

[699] ’The payment of rent in kind has been so long disused in England that it is totally forgotten.  It was practised very lately in the Hebrides, and probably still continues, not only in St. Kilda, where money is not yet known, but in others of the smaller and remoter islands.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 110.

[700] ’A place where the imagination is more amused cannot easily be found.  The mountains about it are of great height, with waterfalls succeeding one another so fast, that as one ceases to be heard another begins.’ Piozzi Letters, i. 157.

[701] See ante, i. 159.

[702] Johnson seems to be speaking of Hailes’s Memorials and Letters relating to the History of Britain in the reign of James I and of Charles I.

[703] See ante, ii. 341.

[704] See ante, iii. 91.

[705] ’In all ages of the world priests have been enemies to liberty, and it is certain that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition.  Liberty of thinking and of expressing our thoughts is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded....  Hence it must happen in such a government as that of Britain, that the established clergy, while things are in their natural situation, will always be of the Court-party; as, on the contrary, dissenters of all kinds will be of the Country-party.’  Hume’s Essays, Part 1, No. viii.

[706] In the original Every island’s but a prison. The song is by a Mr. Coffey, and is given in Ritson’s English Songs (1813), ii. 122.  It begins:—­

’Welcome, welcome, brother debtor,
To this poor but merry place,
Where no bailiff, dun, nor setter,
Dares to show his frightful face.’

See ante, iii. 269.

[707] He wrote to Mrs. Thrale the day before (perhaps it was this day, and the copyist blundered):—­’ I am still in Sky.  Do you remember the song—­

We have at one time no boat, and at another may have too much wind; but of our reception here we have no reason to complain.’ Piozzi Letters, i. 143.