Intererat mea id rescire, ipse enim petii ab illo, jam exacto biennio, ut id faceret, eumque pulchri successus certum reddidi, quod esset omnino conforme meis Principiis, absque quo nunquam de eo cogitasset, eo quod contrariâ tenebatur sententiâ.—Ep. lxix., ibid.

[45a]  Professor Tait, article “Vacuum,” Chambers’s Encyclopedia.

[45b]  These further researches are expounded in two treatises, ‘De l’Équilibre des Liqueurs,’ and ‘De la Pesanteur de l’Air,’ supposed to have been written in 1653, but not published till 1663, after the author’s death.

[46a]  North British Review, August 1844.  Sir David in the main translates from M. Bossut’s “Discours.”

[46b]  Œuvres, t. iv. p. 187.

Faugère, Lettres, etc., p. 80.

Vie de Pascal.

[54a]  Cousin, Vie de Jacqueline, p. 43.