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Endnotes
1 In the beginning of October, 1699.
2 Cicero, de Divinat. lib. ii. cap. lxi.
3 Cicero, de Divinat. lib. ii. cap. lxiil.
4 Cicero, de Divinat. lib. iii.
5 Cicero de Nat. Deor. lib. in sub fin.
6 Cicero de Divinat. lib. ii. cap. ix.
7 Cicero de Divinat. cap. lxi, lxii.
8 Cicero de Divinat. cap. lxiv.
9 James Melvil. Memoirs, vol. 1. page 148.
10 Cicero de Natura Deorum, lib. 1, cap. 19.
11 Senecan de Beneficius, lib. iv. cap. 19.
12 Diog. Laert. lib. x, n. 123.
13 See Erasmus upon the proverb, Movere Camarinam. It is the sixty-fourth of the first century of the first Chiliad.
14 Father Mallebranche, Méditations Chrétiennes, ix. Meditation, n. 3. pag. m. 140, 141, 142.
15 Lactant. de Ira Dei, cap. xiii.
16 Cicero, de Nat. Deorum, lib. iii. c. xxviii.
17 Jurieu.
18 Jurieu’s Judgment on Providence and Grace.
19 Philip. Rovenius. de Republ. Christiana, lib. I. cap. xiii. pag. 278.
20 Spanheim sur les Cæsars de Julien, page 428 et 255.
21 Ælian. Div. Hist. lib. xii. cap. ix.
22 Montaigne, Essays, Tom. iv. lib. iii. ch. viii.
23 Vexatur idem Theophrastus et libris et scholis omnium philosophorum, quod in Callisthene suo laudaret illam sententiam. Vitam régit fortuna non sapientia. Cicero, Tusculan, lib. v.
24 Regnier, Sat. XIV.
25 Printed at Amsterdam, 1696.
26 One may say of several great captains, what Florus said of Sertorius, lib. iii, cap. xxii, “ vir summæ, quidem sed calami tosæ virtutis.”
27 It is intituled, "Chi l’indovina e Savio, overo la Prudenza humana fallacissima"; the author refutes in the third Disganno of the second book of the Oration of Galeotto de gli Oddi.
28 Histoire de Maréchal de Fabert, p. 53.
29 Homer, Odyss. lib. i, ver. 32.
30 Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii, cap. lvii.
31 Id. ibid. cap. cxviii.
32 Amm. Marcell. lib. xiv, cap. xi, pag. m. 55.
33 Velleius Paterculus, lib. ii, cap. lvii.
34 Titus Livius, lib. vi.
35 Tom. xxii. p. 284 et seq.
36 What would Bayle say to the multiplication of books of a kindred species within the last half century, which indisputably pervert many youthful understandings, in respect to historical facts and characters. This interference of the civil power, however, would only make bad worse.—Ed.
37 De l'Origine des Romans, pag. 65, 66. Edit. Latinæ.
38 Parnasse Reformé, pag. 136.
39 Hieronym. Epist. ii. ad Nepotian, pag. m. 213.
40 Id. Epist. xlvii.
41 Theatrum Historicum of Andrew Hondorf, pag. 535, of the fifth edition, 8vo.
42 Virgil. Eclog. viii. ver. 41.
43 Lettres du Comte de Bussi Rabutin, Tom. i. pag. 114, 115, Dutch edit.
44 Hesiod de Deor. Generat. ver. 116.
45 See Cicero, de Natura. Deor. lib. iii, cap. xvii.
46 August, de Civit. Dei, lib. viii, cap. ii, page m. 711.
47 Cicero de Nature Deorum, lib. i, cap. x.
48 It is not quite certain that the late Dr. Darwin did not think so too.—Ed.
49 Casaubon.
50 Montaigue, Essais, livr. iii, chap, v, pag. m. 134.
51 Tacitus, Annal, lib. vi. cap. 22.
52 Pausanias, lib. viii.
53 James Benignus Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, Oraison funebre de Marie Terese d'Autriche Reine de France.
54 Silhon, Ministre d’Etat, livr. ii. Discours iii. pag. 135. Dutch Edition.
55 Agamemnon. See Plutarch, de Tranquillitate Animi.
56 Xenophon. de memorab. Socrat. lib. i.
57 Aristoteles, Metaphys. lib. i, cap. iv.
58 Moses Maimonides in More Nevochim, part iii. cap. xii.
59 It must be confessed that Bayle has argued very powerfully on the sombre side of the question; but probably a strong conviction of the truth of his positions, may rather have a tendency to inculcate a pay and airy philosophy, than a grave and heavy one. Certain it is, that nothing can more strongly tend to inculcate the genuine Epicurean system, or that which unites with the idea of philosophic ease and elegant pleasure, a due restraint of the appetites and passions. It is not quite certain that a life passed in the real or figurative gardens of life, with a high determination to dismiss all extraneous causes of anxiety, may not be selfish in respect to society, or that an Atticus is precisely the model for a man of action and virtue; but it may be asserted without risk, that an early disposition to regard evil as predominant in every situation of life, may very naturally induce to the adoption of a theory, the professed object of which is to increase the agreeable portion of experience, and to lessen that which is opposed to it.—Ed.
60 Thuam. lib. xli. ad aun. 1567. Addam, quod plerisque risu dignnm mihi silentio minime prætermittendum visum est, ipsum tam inexhausti ad venereos usus succi fuisse, ut cùm uxore sola uteretur, et ilia toties ilium admittere non posset, vir alioqui castus quique vagis libidinibus minime oblectabatur ex ejus permissu, negotio cum pastoribus communicato, concubinam unam superinduxerit, cujus consuetudine adore aliquantum perdomito, parci us ac moderatius cum uxore versaretur. Tandem hoc anno, qui ilii ciimactericus fuit, postridie paschæ mortalitatem exuit. Inspecto à Medicis corpore triorclies repetus est.
61 Varillas, Hist, de l'Hérésie, livr. xii. pag. m. 17.
62 Mr de Meaux, Hist. des Variations, livr. vi. n. 1, et seq.
63 Mr de Maux, Hist, des Variations, page 259.
64 Basuage, Hist. de la Religion des Eglises Reformées, Tom. I, pag. 443.
65 Sallust in Bello Catilin. page m. 33.
66 Religion des Jésuites, page 79.
67 This was a leap too far on the other side. Mankind have since hit upon a medium.—Ed.
68 Mariana, de Rege & Regis Institutione, lib. i, cap. vi, pag. 54.
69 Bayle argues very ingeniously on this subject, and doubtless in the laborious undertakings of the authors of his own, and the preceding age, a delay of purchase until a second edition, must have been highly injurious. Modern scribes get over these difficulties very easily.—Ed.
70 Bayle himself in his Pensées diversés, sur les Cometes, chap. clxxx, pag. 557.
71 August. de Civit. Dei, lib. i, cap. xix, pag. 69.
72 Fra. Paolo, Hist. du Concile de Trente, liv. i. pag. 4.
73 Ep. ad Wolf. Tom. vii. fol. 505, &c.
74 Bayle himself.
75 Seneca in Thyeste, Act ii, ver. 313.
76 Azoara, 3,14,17, 30, 71.
77 Azoara 64. Vide latius hanc fabulem ex capite Ceramur, apud Cantacuzenum Oratione in Mabumetem, num. 23.
78 Grotius de veritate Religionis Christianæ, lib. vi. p. m. 202. He cites Azoara. 5, 13.
79 Elmacin. apud Hotting. Hist. Oriental, pag. 241.
80 Prideaux’s Life of Mahomet, pag.155
81 These remarks, in reference to the Muscovites and the Greeks, are curious, looking to the present state of things in the same quarter of Europe.—Ed.
82 Strada de Bello Belg. dec. i. lib. iii.
83 1 Epist. to Timothy, c. iii. v. 2. “ A bishop then must be blameless, the busband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach.”
84 Gasseud. Phys. s. i. lib. iii. cap. v. pag. 264, Oper. Tom. i.
85 Journal de Trevoux, for May and June, 1701, Art. xxxiii.
86 Plutarch. in Marcello.
87 Isaac Barrow, Lect. V, pag. 85.
88 Cicero, de Academ. Quæst. lib. ii, cap. iii.
89 Life of Moliere prefixed to his works. I make use of the Brussels edition, 1694.
90 See the book intitled, “ La fameuse Comedienne, ou Histoire .de la Guerin, auparavant femme & veuve de Moliere, pag. 38, 39.
91 The fellow feeling of Bayle with Arlequin on this occasion is very amusing; so would a numerous tribe of buzzing periodical dramatic critics be much injured by a full consideration of his reasoning on the situation of theatrical proprietors.—Ed.
92 In the ninth chapter of the sixth book.
93 Clavius in Euclid, lib. i, num. 2, and 5.
94 The same difficulties may be raised from the small wheels of a coach, running over as much ground as the great ones, in the same number of rotations about their centre. The same thing may be said of a very small wheel and a very large one, fixed to one and the same axis.
95 For brevity’s sake, I do not express the rejection or the admission: for according to the laws of Logic, one may proceed here from the rejection of any two parts whatsoever to the admission of the third.
96 Nicolle, Art de penser, Part. iv. ch. i. pag. m. 387, 388. See also Rohault, Traité de Physique, Part. i. chap, xxvii.
97 Malebranche, Recherche de la Vérité, livr. i. ch. vi. et seq.
98 Lami, Connoissance de soi-même, tom. ii. pag. 112, et seq.
99 The above conclusion from Nicolle is one of the peace offerings which it is usual for Bayle to present to authority when he has been doing his best to undermine it. These arguments against the existence of motion, have been selected in order to afford a curious example of the intellectual subtilty which Harris of Salisbury, and others, would have us restore, as the only genuine philosophy.—Ed.
100 See the article Agreda.
101 La Fontaine au Conte de la Clochette.
102 Plut. in Pericle, p. 154, 57.
103 Cicero de Divinat. lib. 2, c. 17.
104 La Mothe le Vayer.
105 Aristot. Rhetor. lib. 2, cap. 25, pag. 445, F.
106 Æsop in his sixteenth fable, whose title is “ The Malicious.” He was one who held a sparrow in his hand, and asked the oracle, “ Is what I have in my hand alive or not?” His design was to have killed the sparrow, if the oracle had answered “ It is alive.”
107 Maimbourg, from New Letters against Maimbourg’s Hist. of Calvinism, page 351.
108 Maimbourg, ibid. page 353.
109 Maimbourg, ibid. page 355, et seq.
110 Philip de Coniines, Mémoires, liv. vii , pag. in. 451.
111 Platina, in Gregoria 1.
112 Vossius de Histor. Lat. pag. 98.
113 Forma gregis factus, quod verbo docuit, exemple demonstravit. Otto Frising.
114 Virum sacris literis eruditissimum, et omnium virtutum genere celeberimum. Lambert. Schafuab.
115 Maimbourg, Decadeuce de l’Empire, livr. iii. pag. 220.
116 Naudé, Apologie des Grands Hommes, pag. 577.
117 Gregor. Regist. lib. viii, Ep. vii.
118 Rivet, Remarques sur la Réponse au Mystere d’iniquité, Part II, pag. 182.
119 Du Plessis, Mystery of Iniquity, pag. 541.
120 Coëffet, Answer to the Mystery of Iniquity, pag. 1197.
121 Rivet’s Remarks upon the Answer to the Mystery of Iniquity, part ii, pag. 617.
122 Guicciardini, lib. vi. fol. m. 165, verso.
123 Joan. Henricus Heidegg. Historia Papatus, pag. 192, 193.
124 Istoria del Concilio, lib. i, cap. 1, n. 5.
125 Spondanus, ad ann. 1512, n. 3, pag. m. 289.
126 Jovius, ubi supra, pag. 129, 130.
127 Des Accords Bigarrures, cap. xii, fol. m. 105, verso.
128 Lucas Guaricus Geophonensis, Episcopus Civitatensis in tractatu Astrologico.
129 David Blondel’s Examination of pope Innocent the tenth's Bull, pag. 3.
130 Article Machiavel.
131 Palavic. ubi supra, cap. ii, n. 2, pag. 50.
132 Du Plessis, Mystere d’iniquité, p. 590.
133 Histor. Lutheran, lib. i. pag. 40, col. 2, littera b.
134 Colomiés, Recueil de Particularités, pag. m. 111.
135 Mr de Seidet believes that this letter was written to the canons of Magdeburg, since Albert of Brandenburg was archbishop of Mentz as well as of Magdeburg.
136 Sleidanus, Histor. lïb. xxi, fol. m. 609, versa.
137 Heidegger. Hist. Papatus, pag. 238.
138 It must be confessed that this anecdote places the houses of Valois and Medicis in a very exalted point of view. Ed.
139 Heidegg. Hist. Pap. pag. 413.
140 The title is Philomathi Musæ Juveniles.
141 They are printed at the end of the edition of the Philomathi Musæ Juveniles.
142 Nouvelles de la Repub. des Lettres, May 1686, art. ii. pag. 495.
143 I write this in May 1700.
144 John Palatius, author of a book in five volumes in folio, printed at Venice in 1691, and intituled, “ Gesta Pontificum Romanorum.”