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P. 96. [7] De Aug. ii. 9. [Ib.] partition: portion in ed. 1605, cor- 
rected in Errata. [12] giving but a touch of certain magnificent build- 
ings: that is, but slightly alluding to them. [13] Tac. Ann. xiii. 31. 
[15] a kind of contemplative heraldry: that is, as is explained in the 
Latin, a heraldry by which the rank of books as well as of persons 
may be distinguished. [22] time; Mr. Spedding reads times, [24] 
what passed day by day: For the construction compare Hamlet, i. 
I. 33: ‘ What we two nights have seen.’ [25] Esth. vi. 1. [28] Plut. 
Symp. i. 6. 1; Alex. 23. § 2, 76, &c. 4 
P. 97. [1] De Aug. ii. 10. [4] Mr. Ellis, in his note on the corres- 
ponding passage of the De Augmentis, remarks that ‘the most cele- 
brated work of this kind is one with which Bacon was familiar,— 
the Discorsi of Macchiavelli, of which the narrative part is derived 
from Livy.’ See what Bacon himself says, p. 225. [22] Comp, Of the 
Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 225): ‘For at that time the world 
was altogether home-bred, every nation looked little beyond their own 
confines or territories, and the world had no through lights then, as it 
hath had since by commerce and navigation, whereby there could 
neither be that contribution of wits one to help another, nor that 
variety of particulars for the correcting of customary conceits.’ See 
also Noy. Org. i. 84. [27] Virg. Georg. i. 250. 
P. 98. [1] in their word: Lat. in symbolo suo, [2] plus ultra: Charles 
the Fifth’s motto. [3] imitabile fulmen: referring to the invention of 
gunpowder, [5] Virg. Ain. vi. 590. [7] Fernando de Magalhaens (or 
Magellan) was the first navigator who sailed round the world, 1519- 
1522. Drake’s voyage was in 1577-1579. [14] Dan. xii. 4. The 
quotation in the text, which is from the Vulgate, is altered in the Latin 
to augebitur scientia, [21] De Aug. ii. 11. [22] in the propriety 
thereof: Lat. proprio vero nomine. 
P. gg. [11] Ps, xc. 4; 2 Pet. iii. 8. [23] 1 Cor. ii. 14. [26] Eph. 
ii. 12, [28] Hab. ii. 2. This very common form of misquotation of 
this passage appears to have had its origin in Coverdale’s Version; 
‘that who so commeth by, may rede it’ The correct rendering is 
that given in the English Bible; ‘that he may run that readeth it.’ 
P, 100, [4] De Aug. ii. 12. [26] it is a great loss of that book of 
Czsar’s: A loose construction equivalent to ‘it is a great loss, viz. the 
loss of that book of Czesar’s.’ 
P. 101. [4-6] one of the cells... which is that of the memory: 
Comp. Burton, Anat. of Mel. Part I. Sec. 1. Mem. 2. Subs. 4. ‘The 
fourth creek, behind the head, is common to the cerebel or little brain, 
and marrow of the back-bone, the least and most solid of all the rest, 
which receives the animal spirits from the other ventricles, and conveys 
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