Honnête is used ironically. ' Accommodating

37. M. F. On ne peut s'en tirer = One cannot drag one's self away from it.

38. Note in this dialogue the comical effect of the contrast between the naïve admiration of the Jesuit and the délicate irony of Pascal.

39. 'Proximate occasions of sin' — i.e., circumstances which are

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calculated by thcir Datait tO lead to sin: the marriage of a Roman Oitholk with a Protestant is, for instance, according to the Romish Church, an occasion of sin to the former.

40. Note contemptuous force of ces {cf. Lat. isle). The effect is hdgfatened by the fact that Pascal, unknown to his imaginary interlocutor, was the champion of the Janscnists (see Lift),