P. 22, l. 4. De omni scibili. The title given to nine hundred propositions, put forth at Rome by Pico della Mirandola, then aged twenty-three, in 1486.
P. 22, l. 8. The Principles of Philosophy. Descartes wrote a work with this title, Principia Philosophiæ.
P. 22, l. 38. Beneficia eo usque lata sunt. Tacitus, Ann. lib. iv. c. xviii. Taken by Pascal from Montaigne, Essais, l. iii. ch. viii.
P. 24, l. 27. And what completes our inability. Compare for the whole of the passage on matter and spirit, Descartes, Discours de la Méthode.
P. 25, l. 34. Modus quo corporibus adhæret spiritus. S. Aug. De Civitate Dei, xxi. 10. Taken by Pascal from Montaigne, Essais, l. ii. ch. xii.
P. 26, l. 31. Lustravit lampade terras. The full couplet is
Tales sunt hominum mentes, quali pater ipse
Jupiter auctiferas lustravit lampade terras.
S. Aug. De Civitate Dei, v. 8, a translation by Cicero of two lines in the Odyssey, xviii. 136. The quotation is borrowed from Montaigne, Essais, l. ii. ch. xii.
P. 27, l. 20. a fly is buzzing. Borrowed from Montaigne, Essais, l. iii. ch. xiii.