[Who dares ?worship ?a ?man Whod have Driven you long Ago Insane]

[P xcvi, summing up: If Reynolds had been an orator, he would have resembled Laelius rather

than Galba]

He certainly would have been more like a Fool Than a Wise Man

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[PP xcvii-xcviii, note 54, Burke on Reynolds] But this disposition to abstractions, to generalizing

and classification, is the great glory of the human mind, . . .

To Generalize is to be an Idiot To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit--

General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess [As do Fools that

adore Things & ?ideas x x x of General Knowledge]

[PP xcviii-xcix] . . . during the greater part of his life, laboured as hard with his pencil, as any

mechanick . . . .

The Man who does not Labour more than the Hireling must be a poor Devil.

[P ciii] [Malone, praising Reynolds' endorsement of Burke's anti-revolutionary sagacity, applies

Dryden--"They led their wild desires to woods and caves, / And thought that all but SA V AGES

were slaves"--to those who would assimilate England "to the model of the FEROCIOUS and

ENSLAVED Republick of France!"]

When France got free Europe 'twixt Fools & Knaves

Were Savage first to France, & after; Slaves

[P civ, Malone on Reynolds' good fortune to have escaped the present era of sedition] . . .

England is at present in an unparalleled state of wealth and prosperity. . . . These FACTS ought

to be sounded from one end of England to the other, . . . a complete answer to all the

SEDITIOUS DECLAMATIONS. . . .

This Whole Book was Written to Serve Political Purposes [?First to Serve Nobility &

Fashionable Taste & Sr. Joshua]

[P cix, on Reynolds' death Feb 23 1792, from "the inordinate growth"ofhis liver]

When SrJoshua Reynolds died

All Nature was degraded;

The King dropd a tear into the Queens Ear;