[9] Matt. xi. 15.
[10] 1 Pet. iii. 3.
[11] 1 Pet iii. 15.
[12] Alphonsus the Wise—I go on the common supposition, that this Prince intended a reflexion on the system of nature itself; but, perhaps, his purpose was no more than, in a strong way of expression, (though it must be owned, no very decent one) to reprobate the hypothesis [the Ptolemaic], which set that system in so bad a light.
[13] —μεταξὺ ἀλλήλων τῶν λογισμῶν κατηγορούντων ἢ καὶ ἀπολογουμένων. See the Paraphrase and Comment on this text by Mr. Taylor of Norwich, to whom I acknowledge myself indebted for the idea which governs the general method of this discourse.
[14] Nat. Deor. l. ii. c. 66.
[15] Sallust.
[16] Plato’s Republic.
[17] Xenophon’s Inst. of Cyrus.
[18] Rom. ch. i. ver. 28-32.—ποιεῖν τὰ μὴ καθήκοντα—συνευδοκοῦσι τοῖς πράσσουσιν.