In a pamphlet entitled _Defence of the Antient History of
Ireland_, published in 1795, he maintains (p. 158) "that the
Carthaginian and the Irish language being originally the same, either
the Carthaginians must have been descended from the Irish, or the Irish
from the Carthaginians."]
{338}[425] The Portuguese proverb says that "hell is paved with good
intentions."--[See _Vision of Judgment_, stanza xxxvii. line 8,
_Poetical Works_, 1901, iv. 499, note 2.]
[ib] _At least the sharp faints of that "burning marle."_--[MS. erased.]
{339}[426] ["The Nervii marched to the number of sixty thousand, and
fell upon Caesar, as he was fortifying his camp, and had not the least
notion of so sudden an attack. They first routed his cavalry, and then
surrounded the twelfth and the seventh legions, and killed all the
officers. Had not Caesar snatched a buckler from one of his own men,
forced his way through the combatants before him, and rushed upon the
barbarians; or had not the tenth legion, seeing his danger, ran from the
heights where they were posted, and mowed down the enemy's ranks, not
one Roman would have survived the battle."--Plutarch, _Caesar_,
Langhorne's translation, 1838, p.
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