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1 Plutarch in Lucullus.

2 Observe, that I do not say it would be right to do so.
Note by the Author. -- Well guarded M. Bayle. Ed.

3 Leti, Ceremoniale Politico, Parte 1. lib. 1. pag. 76, 77. 

4 Leti, ibid. pag. 78, 79.

5 Cicero Orat. in Verrem. lib. i. cap. 51, &c.

6 Cicero in Verrem.

7 Anna Maria à Schurman. in Opuscul. p. 85.

8 Voltaire, in his Philosophical Dictionary, ridicules this account by Herodotus as utterly monstrous and incredible. Its explication of the passage of Jeremiah, however, if illusive, is singularly apt.—Ed.

9 Cicero de Nat. Deor. 1.

10 Petrus Poiret, Cogitat. Rationales de Deo, Anima, et Malo, lib. iii. cap. xvi.

11 Id. Ibid. pag. 439.

12 Poiret, pag. 680.

13 Lescalopier in Cicer. de Nat. Deorum, lib. i. num. 28, pag. 44.

14 Pyrrhone, lib. ix, num. 72.

15 Thucydid. lib. ii, pag. m. 126, A.

16 Plutarch, at the beginning of his treatise concerning Isis and Osiris.

17 Nicolle, Perpétuité de la Foi, pag. 118; 119, Edit. 1666.

18 Cicero de Senect.

19 The play of this pasquinade on the five propositions of the Jansenists, on grace, necessity, and free-will, is humourous. --- ED.

20 Taken from the Life of Franciscus Junius, page 14.

21 Histoire Ecclésiastique, lib. ii, pag. 68.

22 Brantome, Eloge de Henri II.

23 Histoire de Henri II, lib. i, pag. 36, 37.

24 Commentaires de l’état de la Relig. et Republ. liv. iv, folio, 152. Thuanus, lib. xxvii.

25 Pére Rapin’s Preface to the Comparison of Thucydides and Livy.

26 Ælian. Var. Histor. lib. v. cap. xxi.

27 Now and then in England. Ed.

28 Conimbric. in lib. 5, de Animâ, cap. 5.

29 Plut. in Nicia, sub finem, pag. 542, C.

30 Prophecying here means spontaneous preaching in public assemblies. Ed.

31 Cicero in Brut.

32 Moliere, Comédie du Cocu imaginaire.

33 Muret. Variar. Leet. lib. xviii. cap. viii. pag. m. 1207.

34 Epist. xxxv. lib. ix.

35 Quintil. lib. x. cap. iv. pag. m. 488.

36 Tacit. Ann. lib. 13, cap. 41.

37 Liv. Dec. I, lib. i, cap. 3.

38 Sallust. in Prooem. belli Catilin, pag. 6, 7.

39 A fling at Jurieu. Ed.

40 Smith in vita Camdeni, p. 53.

41 Cicero, Orat. pro Cluentio, cap. 65.

42 Servius, in Æneid. lib. xii. ver. 200.

43 Upon the proverb, Κυνὸς δικην. Canis vindictam. Adag. Chil. I, Cent. vii, n. 47, p. m. 245.

44 See the foregoing note.

45 Plus est provinciam retinere, quam facere. Flor. lib. ii. cap. xvii.

46 Mezerai, Abrège Chron. Tom. 6, pag. 237.

47 Bayle would have exclaimed with still greater emphasis in the present times. Ed.

48 Irish Catholicism to wit. Ed.

49 Hall, Miscellaneous Letters, Dec. II, Epist. v, pag. 290.

50 Count Balthasar Castiliogne, in his Corteggiano, lib. iii, pag. m. 382.

51 Jurieu.

52 But what else does it afford? Ed.

53 Cicero, Philipp. ii, cap. iv.

54 Seneca, de Ira, lib. ii, cap. 27.

55 See Homer in the Hymn to Apollo.

56 Pausan. lib. ix, pag. xvi, cap. 742.

57 Montaigne’s Essays, book iii, in the last chapter.

58 Herodot. lib. ii. cap. xxxiv.

59 Chrysost. Homil. xlvi.

60 August. Serm. lxviii. de Temp.

61 Vossius, Epist. cccclxii, p. m. 409, col. 1.

62 Henr. Morus, de Anima, lib. ii, cap. iv.