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philosophy, bringeth mens mindes about to Religion: for while the 
minde of man, looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes 
rest in them, and goe no further: but when it beholdeth, the chaine 
of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs flie to providence, 
and deitie,’ 
P. to. [5] Hom. Il. viii. 19. Comp. also p. 109, 1. 24. Plato, 
Theet. i. 153. [25] too incompatible and differing: Lat. nimis 
extravagantia. [31] Plutarch, Cato, 22; Pliny, N. H. vii. 31. 
P. 11. [15] Virgil, A2n. vi. 852. [16] Plato, Apol. Socr. i. 19, 
24 &c. Xenophon, Mem. i. 1. 1. [28] Comp. Ess. lviii. pp. 237, 
238: ‘In the youth of a state, armes doe flourish: in the middle age 
of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time: 
in the declining age of a state, mechanicall arts and merchandize.’ 
P. 12. [9] a greater: So ed. 1640; ‘a’ is omitted in edd. 1605, 1629, 
1633. [14-20] Comp. Ess. lviii. pp. 237, 238, quoted above. [16] 
about an age: i.e. about the same age. According to Aristotle (Rhet. 
ii. 14. § 4) the body is strongest from thirty to thirty-five, the mind 
at forty-nine. [25] a few pleasing receipts: Lat. pauca guedam medica- 
menta que illis videntur panchresta. (27) the complexions of patients: 
Lat. egrotorum habitus. [28] peril of accidents: Lat. symptomatum 
pericula, See p. 137, 1. 20. 
P. 13. [16] Suetonius, Nero, 7; Tac. An. xiii. [17] Gordianus III. 
(238-244) married the daughter of Misitheus, of whom Gibbon (c. vii.) 
says, ‘ The life of Misitheus had been spent in the profession of letters, 
not of arms; yet such was the versatile genius of that great man, that, 
when he was appointed Preetorian preefect, he discharged the military 
duties of his place with vigour and ability.’ Capitolinus, Gordian. Tert. 
c.23. The name Misitheus is supposed to be corrupted from Temesitheus 
or Timesitheus. [20] Alexander Severus succeeded after the murder of 
his cousin Elagabalus, March io, 222. ‘But as Alexander was a modest 
and dutiful youth of only seventeen years of age, the reins of govern- 
ment were in the hands of two women, of his mother Mamza, and of 
Mesa his grandmother. After the death of the latter, who survived but 
a short time the elevation of Alexander, Mamza remained the sole-regent 
of her son and of the empire.’ Gibbon, c. vi. [24] Pius V. (Michele 
Ghislieri) was a Dominican and had been Grand Inquisitor. He was 
Pope from 1565 to 1572. The victory over the Turks off Lepanto was 
won in his time. See Bacon, Adv. touching an Holy War (vii. p. 19). 
Sixtus V. (Felice Peretti) was appointed by Pius V. vicar-general of the 
Franciscans, and afterwards promoted to the College of Cardinals as 
Cardinal Montalto. He succeeded Gregory XIII. in 1585, and reigned 
till 1590. Gibbon (c. 70) says of him, ‘The genius of Sixtus the Fifth 
burst from the gloom of a Franciscan cloister. See Ranke, Hist. of 
the Popes, trans. Foster, Books iii, and iv. [26] pedantical: So all the 
