Note 734 — CHAP. VIII.

Ut in majori periculo sis, quod in dies te novo exponas, dum invisis ægrotos. (Ibid., MS. 87.) Chateaubriand had forgotten this fact, and thousands similar to it, when he said, "the protestant pastor abandons the poor man on his death-bed, and rushes not into the midst of the plague." (Essai sur la Literature Anglaise.)