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pointed, the ‘sentences concise, and the composition rather twisted than 
flowing. Instances are found largely in Seneca, less in Tacitus and 
Plinius Secundus. [13] Lat. neque theologiam tantum, sed etiam omnes 
Scientias respicere videtur, ([Ib.] 1 Tim. vi. 20, Quoted again im Ess. iii. 
p- 11. [17] the strictness of positions : Lat. rigor dogmatum. [26]—pi 
32 [9] This kind . . . profit: The original of this passage is to be found 
in Bacon’s Cogit. de Sci. Hum. Frag. i. cog. ro (Works, iii. 187). 
P. 32. [7] cobwebs: ed. 1605, copwebs, the older form of spelling. In 
Old English, ‘atter cop’ (A. S. dttor coppa) is a spider. [20] See 
ZEsop, Fab. 52. Vis unita fortior: Bacon, Colours of Good and Evil, 
p- 255, ed. W. A. Wright. [27] Quintil. x. 1: Si rerum pondera 
minutissimis sententiis non fregisset, consensu potius eruditorum quam 
puerorum amore comprobaretur. Quoted again in Ess, xxvi. p. 105. 
P. 33. [10] Virg. Ecl. vi. 75. Bacon makes use of the same figure in 
hjs book Of the Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 232, ed. Spedding). 
[22] of Adyou cov yepovti@or. Diog. Laert. Plato, iii. 18. Quoted again 
in Nov. Org. i. 71. [29]—p. 34. [4] but as they are... unto them: 
Omitted in the Latin, for the same reason as before. For the original 
form see Of the Interp. of Nat. p. 224. [30] fierce with dark keeping : 
that is, as Mr. Ellis explains it, fierce with being kept in the dark, like 
animals. He quotes from Bacon’s Cogitationes de Scientia Humana, 
1st frag. cog. 10 (Works, iii. 187): ferocitatem autem et confidentiam eam 
que illos qui pauca sequi solet (ut animalia in tenebris educata) 
acquisivissent, 
P. 34. [8] the essential form: Lat. ipsam naturam animamque. [19] 
Hor. Epist. i. 18. 69. [24] Tac. Ann. vy. 10; comp. Hist. i. 51. -[25] 
‘hath’ for ‘ have’: a loose construction, not uncommon in Bacon. See 
p. 35, l. 26: ‘Such whereupon observat’ n, and rule was to be built.’ 
Also p. 109, L 33» and Ps, xiv. 7, Pr. Bk. “struction and unhappiness 
is in their ways.’ [29] or, as: ‘or’ is omitted in od. 1605, but inserted 
in Errata and in edd. 1629, 1633. 
P. 35. [3-10] which though... religion: Omitted in the Latin as 
before, pp. 21, 28, 33. [3] had. a passage for a time: The -d. 160 
reads, ‘had a passage for time.’ Perhaps it should be, ‘ had pas 
a time,’ that is, ‘were current for a time.’ [13] Plinius: ‘fF 
secundus of Verona; a man of great Eloquence, and industry :. 
fatigable, as may appear by his writings, especially those now caw. 
and which are never like to perish, but even with learning it self; that 
is, his natural History. He was the greatest Collector or Rhapso- 
dist of the Latines, and as Suetonius observeth, he collected this piece, 
out of two thousand Latine.and Greek Authors. Now, what is very 
strange, there is scarce a popular error passant in our dayes, which 
is not either directly expressed, or diductively contained in this work.’ 
Sir T. Brown, Vulgar Errors, book i. chap. 8, p. 33 (ed. 1658). [Ib.], 
