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paraded. [26, 27] Which age, because it is the age of least authority, 
it is transferred &c.: Observe the looseness of construction in the 
unnecessary repetition of the pronoun #; the words ‘ which age’ being 
placed foremost in the sentence without any government as a kind of 
nominativus pendens. Other examples occur in the course of this book; 
pp. 2, ll. 17, 18; 39, ll. 10, 11, 32, 33; 48, ll. 20-24. Comp. the 
Authorized Version of John xiii. 3, 4; ‘ Jesus knowing... he riseth &c.’ 
P. 21. [4] Joel: ii. 28. Comp. Ess. xlii. p: 175: ‘ A certaine rabbine, 
upon the text; Four young men shall see visions, and your old men shall 
dreame dreames; inferreth, that young men are admitted nearer to God 
then old; because vision is a clearer revelation, then a dreame.’ The 
‘rabbine’ is Abrabanel. [6] they: Some copies of ed. 1605 read the: 
[8] condition...hath: In ed. 1605 the reading is conditions... hath; 
in ed. 1633, conditions ...have. [9g] Comp. Florio’s Montaigne, p. 60; 
ed. 1603: ‘I have-in my youth oftentimes beene' vexed, to see a Pedant 
brought in, in most of Italian Comedies, for a vice or sporte-maker.’ 
[16-21] The whole clause is modified in the De Augmentis to avoid 
giving offence to the Roman Catholics. It there stands as follows: 
quorum cum intueor industriam solertiamque tam in doctrina excolenda 
quam in moribus informandis, illud occurrit Agesilai de Pharnabazo &c. 
[17] A saying of Diogenes. See Diog: Laert. vi. 46. Comp. Apoph. 
266. [21] Plutarch, Ages. xii. 5. [28] Ovid, Epist. xv. 83. Quoted 
again in Ess. l. p. 205. [28-30] Lat. atgue literas, nisi incidant in 
ingenia admodum depravata, corrigere prorsus naturam et mutare in melius, 
{33] not inherent: The negative is superfluous, or something has been 
omitted. The Latin has nullum oecurrit dedecus literis ex literatorum 
moribus, quatenus sunt literati, adherens, where ‘inherent’ is taken as 
referring to ‘disgrace,’ and not to ‘manners,’ as Mr. Spedding explains 
it: ‘not [I mean, from such manners as are] inherent! &c.’ 
P. 22. [11] Plutarch, Solon, 15; Bacon, Apoph. 93. [14] Plato, 
Epist.. vii. p. 331. Mr. Ellis suggested’ that Bacon probably took it 
from Cicero, Epist. Fam. i, 9. 18. [17] Epist. i. ad Cazes. De Republica 
Ordinanda. [20] Cic. ad Att. ii, 1. 8: optimo animo utens et summa fide, 
nocet interdum reipublice; ‘Dicit enim tanquam in Platonis wodtreia, non 
tanquam in Romuli face, sententiam, [23] doth excuse and expound: 
Lat. molli interpretatione excusat. [25] Cic. pro Murena, 3r: Etenim 
isti ipsi mihi videntur vestri preceptores et) virtutis magistri fines officiorum 
&c: [29] Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 548. 
P. 23. [2] Demosthenes, De Cherson, p. 106. [8] quinquennium 
Neronis: See Aurelius Victor, De Cesar. v2. [10] The Latin adds, 
magno suo periculo, ac postremo precipitio.. [13] the casualty of their 
fortunes: Lat. instabilitatis fortune. [20] Matt. xxv. 20. [21 &c.] 
Compare with this Essay xxiii. ‘Of wisdome for a man’s selfe.’ [23] 
nor never ; Observe the double negative, [25] lines: Some copies of ed, 
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