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in the sequel, that Bacon’s works were well known, and their 
beneficial effects largely acknowledged, in foreign countries, 
lone before the period pointed at in the statements of Mr 
Srewarr. 
In the first place, then, I must observe, generally, that the tes- 
timony of such of Bacon’s contemporaries as allude to his writ- 
ings, as well as of his earlier Biographers and. Editors, stands de- 
cidedly opposed to the supposition, that his fame was of slow 
growth upon the Continent. The information which they give 
upon this point, rather, indeed, supports a contrary conclusion, 
—that the early celebrity of his writings abroad, contributed 
to enhance their credit at home. Thus, Gusaws tells us, that it 
was the voice of foreign fame which silenced the cry of atheism, 
raised against them by some of the School-Divines of his own 
country *. Mr Srewarr dates the full acknowledgment of his 
philosophical merits in England from the period of the esta- 
blishment of the Royal Society +. Now, in the account of 
Bacon’s Life, published in 1657 by Dr Rawrzy, who had 
been for many years his domestic Chaplain, it is distinctly 
stated, “ that his fame was greater, and sounded louder in fo- 
“ yeign parts than at home ;” and it is added, “ that divers of 
“ his works had been translated more than once into other 
“ tongues, both learned and modern, by foreign pens f.” Dr 
Rawxry had, some years before, received a strong proof 
of the early celebrity of his late Patron’s writings abroad, in 
a letter from Isaac Gruter, which contains the following pas- 
sage: “ Lewis Exzevir wrote me lately from Amsterdam, that 
“ he 
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* Oszorn’s Miscellany of Essays, Paradoxes and Discourses, Preface. 
+- Dissertation, p. 158. 
+ Life, prefixed to Rawury’s Resuscitatio, first published in 1657. 
