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discharging and attending to the duties of his office. [23-26] and 
therefore . .. profession: Omitted in the Lat. [28] 1 Sam. xxx. 22. 
P. 80. [3] Virg. Georg. iii. 128. [4, 5] some alchemist. .. who call: 
For another example of this loose construction see p. 19, ll. 8, 9, ‘some 
friar. ..to whom,’ &c. [10] Physic: Lat: medicina. [17] Lat. nec usu 
mortuorum corporum ad observationes anatomicas destitui. [28] Pliny, 
Hist. Nat. viii.17. [91] travail: In edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, éravailes. 
[31, 32] much better... nature: Lat. certe majus quiddam debetur iis, qui’ 
non in saltibus nature pererrant, sed in labyrinthis artium viam sibi aperiunt. 
Mr. Spedding explains ‘arts’ of nature’ as ‘working upon and altering 
nature by art. In p. 86 ‘history: of arts’ is equivalent to “history of 
nature altered or wrought.’ But from the expressions in the Latin’ 
translation it would rather seem that ‘by arts of nature’ Bacon intended 
those recondite and intricate operations which are the subjects of inves- 
tigation by the experimental philosopher, as the chemist for example, . 
and which are contrasted with the more external manifestations with 
which the naturalist deals, as the windings of a labyrinth with the open 
glades of a forest. See Nov. Org. preef. 
-P. 81. [27] Cie. De Orator. iii. 26. [28] Cic. Orator. 24: 
P. 82. [22] Cic. Ep. ad Att. ix. 7, 
P. 83. [2] Lat. adeo ut habeant prefectos (alios Provinciales, alios Gene- 
rales) quibus omnes parent, [9g] James i. 17. [23] Aaron, not Moses. 
See Exod. vii. 12. [26] opera basilica, works for a king: Perhaps’ 
Bacon was thinking of the basilica facinora of Plautus (Trin. iv. 3..23). 
[29] the inducing part: the’ introductory part. Lat. speeulativa illa’ 
pars. 
P. 84. [16] Amare et sapere vix Deo conceditur. Publ. Syr. Sent. 15. 
Quoted again in Ess. x. p: 37. Comp. Ovid, Met. ii. 846: Non bene’ 
conveniunt nec in una sede morantur Majestas et amor. [20] Quoted’ from 
Ennius by Cicero, De Off. i. 16. 
P. 85. [3] Prov. xxii. 13. [4] Virg. Aim. v. 231. [9-21] This 
paragraph is much enlarged in the-De Augmentis, ii. 1. [22] De 
Aug. ii. 4. In the De Augmentis Bacon makes only two: divisions 
of History, natural and civil; including in the latter history ecclesi- 
astical and literary. 
P. 86. [5] a just story of learning; i.e. an accurate history: [21] 
In De Augm. ii. 2 the same division is made but at greater length. 
[32] the strange events of time and chance: Lat. casuum (ut ait ille) 
ingenia. 
P. 87. [11] it is never called down: Lat. nunquam postea exter- 
minantur aut retractantur. [13] The treatise De miris. auscultationibus 
attributed to Aristotle is now believed. not to be by him. Bacon 
again refers to it in p. 35, l. 24. [Ib.] is nothing less than: i.e. is 
by uo: means intended, [16] axioms: Mr. Kitchin, in his‘ edition of 
