INDEX
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Pascal, Blaise
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[99] P. 73, l. 12. The creature.—What is purely natural in us.
[100] P. 74, l. 15. Inclina cor meum, Deus.—Ps. cxix, 36.
[101] P. 75, l. 11. Unus quisque sibi Deum fingit.—See Book of Wisdom xv, 6, 16.
[102] P. 76, l. 34. Eighth beatitude.—Matthew v, 10. It is to the fourth beatitude that the thought directly refers.
[103] P. 77, l. 6. One thousand and twenty-eight.—The number of the stars according to Ptolemy's catalogue.
[104] P. 77, l. 29. Saint Augustine.—Epist. cxx, 3.
[105] P. 78, l. 1. Nisi efficiamini sicut parvuli.—Matthew xviii, 3.
[106] P. 80, l. 20. Inclina cor meum, Deus, in....—Ps. cxix, 36.
[107] P. 80, l. 22. Its establishment.—The constitution of the Christian Church.
[108] P. 81, l. 20. The youths and maidens and children of the Church would prophesy.—Joel ii, 28.
[109] P. 83, l. 11. On what, etc.—See Montaigne, Essais, ii, 12.
[110] P. 84, l. 16. Nihil amplius ... est.—Ibid. Cicero, De Finibus, v, 21.
[111] P. 84, l. 17. Ex senatus ... exercentur.—Montaigne, Essais, iii, 1. Seneca, Letters, 95.
[112] P. 84, l. 18. Ut olim ... laboramus.—Montaigne, Essais, iii, 13. Tacitus, Ann., iii, 25.
[113] P. 84, l. 20. The interest of the sovereign.—The view of Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic, i, 338.
[114] P. 84, l. 21. Another, present custom.—The doctrine of the Cyrenaics. Montaigne, Essais, iii, 13.
[115] P. 84, l. 24. The mystical foundation of its authority.—Montaigne, Essais, iii, 13. See also ii, 12.
[116] P. 85, l. 2. The wisest of legislators.—Plato. See Republic, ii, 389, and v, 459.
[117] P. 85, l. 4. Cum veritatem, etc.—An inexact quotation from St. Augustine, De Civ. Dei, iv, 27. Montaigne, Essais, ii, 12.
[118] P. 85, l. 17. Veri juris.—Cicero, De Officiis, iii, 17. Montaigne, Essais, iii, I.
[119] P. 86, l. 9. When a strong man, etc.—Luke xi, 21.
[120] P. 86, l. 26. Because he who will, etc.—See Epictetus, Diss., iii, 12.
[121] P. 88, l. 19. Civil wars are the greatest of evils.—Montaigne, Essais, iii, 11.
[122] P. 89, l. 5. Montaigne.—Essais, i, 42.
[123] P. 91, l. 8. Savages laugh at an infant king.—An allusion to a visit of some savages to Europe. They were greatly astonished to see grown men obey the child king, Charles IX. Montaigne, Essais, i, 30.
[124] P. 92, l. 8. Man's true state.—See Montaigne, Essais, i, 54.
[125] P. 95, l. 3. Omnis ... vanitati.—Eccles. iii, 19.
[126] P. 95, l. 4. Liberabitur.—Romans viii, 20-21.
[127] P. 95, l. 4. Saint Thomas.—In his Commentary on the Epistle of St. James. James ii, 1.
[128] P. 96, l. 9. The account of the pike and frog of Liancourt.—The story is unknown. The Duc de Liancourt led a vicious life in youth, but was converted by his wife. He became one of the firmest supporters of Port-Royal.
[129] P. 97, l. 18. Philosophers.—The Stoics.
[130] P. 97, l. 24. Epictetus.—Diss., iv, 7.
[131] P. 97, l. 26. Those great spiritual efforts, etc.—On this, and the following fragment, see Montaigne, Essais, ii, 29.
[132] P. 98, l. 3. Epaminondas.—Praised by Montaigne, Essais, ii, 36. See also iii, 1.
[133] P. 98, l. 17. Plerumque gratæ principibus vices.—Horace, Odes, III, xxix, 13, cited by Montaigne, Essais, i, 42. Horace has divitibus instead of principibus.
[134] P. 99, l. 4. Man is neither angel nor brute, etc.—Montaigne, Essais, iii, 13.
[135] P. 99, l. 14. Ut sis contentus, etc.—A quotation from Seneca. See Montaigne, Essais, ii, 3.
[136] P. 99, l. 21. Sen. 588.—Seneca, Letter to Lucilius, xv. Montaigne, Essais, iii, I.
[137] P. 99, l. 23. Divin.—Cicero, De Divin., ii, 58.
[138] P. 99, l. 25. Cic.—Cicero, Tusc, ii, 2. The quotation is inaccurate. Montaigne, Essais, ii, 12.