[102] P. 76, l. 34. _Eighth beat.i.tude._--Matthew v, 10. It is to the fourth beat.i.tude 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 const.i.tution 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. _c.u.m 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 gratae 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.
[139] P. 99, l. 27. _Senec._--Seneca, _Epist._, 106.
[140] P. 99, l. 28. _Id maxime_, etc.--Cicero, _De Off._, i, 31.
[141] P. 99, l. 29. _Hos natura_, etc.--Virgil, _Georgics_, ii, 20.
[142] P. 99, l. 30. _Paucis opus_, etc.--Seneca, _Epist._, 106.
[143] P. 100, l. 3. _Mihi sic usus_, etc.--Terence, _Heaut._, I, i, 28.
[144] P. 100, l. 4. _Rarum est_, etc.--Quintilian, x, 7.
[145] P. 100, l. 5. _Tot circa_, etc.--M. Seneca, _Suasoriae_, i, 4.
[146] P. 100, l. 6. _Cic._--Cicero, _Acad._, i, 45.
[147] P. 100, l. 7. _Nec me pudet_, etc.--Cicero, _Tusc._, i, 25.
[148] P. 100, l. 8. _Melius non incipiet._--The rest of the quotation is _quam desinet_. Seneca, _Epist._, 72.
[149] P. 100, l. 25. _They win battles._--Montaigne, in his _Essais_, ii, 12, relates that the Portuguese were compelled to raise the siege of Tamly on account of the number of flies.