Footnotes
[768:1] Carlyle says, in his "History of Frederick the Great," book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy's astronomy, "that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice," is still remembered by mankind,—this and no other of his many sayings.
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DANTE. 1265-1321.
(Cary's Translation.)
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Hell. Canto iii. Line 9.
The wretched souls of those who lived
Without or praise or blame.
Hell. Canto iii. Line 34.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.[769:1]
Hell. Canto v. Line 121.