“We’ll blow the villains all sky-high,
     But do it with e-co-no-my.”]

[Footnote 3:  About this time came Meli-Meli, Ambassador from Tunis, in search of an indemnity and the frigate.]

[Footnote 4:  Massachusetts gave him ten thousand acres, to be selected by him or by his heirs, in any of the unappropriated land of the Commonwealth in the District of Maine.  Act Passed March 3d, 1806]

[Footnote 5:  He remained in Sicily until 1809, when he was offered the Beyship of Derne by his brother.  He accepted it; two years later, fresh troubles drove him again into exile.  He died in great poverty at Cairo.  Jusuf reigned until 1832, and abdicated in favor of a son.  A grandson of Jusuf took up arms against the new Pacha.  The intervention of the Sultan was asked; a corps of Turkish troops entered Tripoli, drove out both Pachas, and reannexed the Regency to the Porte.]

[Footnote 6:  The scene of Mr. Jefferson’s celebrated retreat from the British.  A place of frequent resort for Federal editors in those days.]

[Footnote 7:  In attempting to describe my own sensations, I labor under the disadvantage of speaking mostly to those who have never experienced anything of the kind.  Hence, what would he perfectly clear to myself, and to those who have passed through a similar experience, may be unintelligible to the former class.  The Spiritualists excuse the crudities which their Plato, St. Paul, and Shakspeare utter, by ascribing them to the imperfection of human language; and I may claim the same allowance in setting forth mental conditions of which the mind itself can grasp no complete idea, seeing that its most important faculties are paralyzed during the existence of those conditions.]

[Footnote 8:  The recent experiments in Hypnotism, in France, show that a very similar psychological condition accompanies the trance produced by gazing fixedly upon a bright object held near the eyes.  I have no doubt, in fact, that it belongs to every abnormal state of the mind.]

[Footnote 9:  See The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon containing the Wonderful Things that he did in his Life, also the Manner of his Death; with the Lives and Deaths of the Conjurors Bungye and Vandermast.  Reprinted in Thom’s Early English Romances.]

[Footnote 10:  Historia Crit.  Phil.  Period.  II.  Pars II.  Liber II.  Cap. iii.  Section 23.]

[Footnote 11:  A barbarous distich gives the relations of these two famous divisions of knowledge in the Middle Ages:—­

     “Gramm loquitur, Dia verba docet, Rhet verba colorat,
     Mus canit, Ar numerat, Geo ponderat, Ast colit astra.”]

[Footnote 12:  See Haureau, De la Philosophie Scolastique, II. 284-5.]