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BOOK Ii. 299 
‘Giving to you no further personal power 
To business with the king, more than the scope 
Of these delated articles allow.’ 
Compare also Sanderson, Serm. iv. Ad Magistratum (Works, vol. ii. p. 
274, ed. Jacobson, 1854): ‘The result of these particulars amount in 
the whole to this.’ An example in which the intervening substantive is 
in the singular is in Mid. Night’s Dr. iii. 2. 97 :— 
‘With sighs of love that costs the fresh blood dear.’ 
And again, Com. of Err. v. 1. 69, 70:— 
‘The venom clamours of a jealous woman 
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth’ 
[15] ‘use,’ in the sense of interest or increase: Lat. incrementa. 
P. 127. [14] The Lat. omits Empedocles and adds Philolaus, Xeno- 
phanes, Anaxagoras, and Leucippus. [16] In 1574 Amurath III. on 
succeeding to the throne caused his five brothers to be strangled, and 
in 1595 Mahomet III. removed all his brothers in the same way and 
caused ten of his father’s wives and concubines to be drowned (Knolles, 
Hist. of the Turks, pp. 919, 1056, ed. 1603). See Nov. Org. i. 67. 
[18] Lat. amen iis, qui non regnum aut magisterium sed veritatis inqui- 
sitionem atque illustrationem sibi proponunt. [24] the received astronomy: 
That is, the Ptolemaic system, in which the earth was the centre of the 
universe. See p. 97, l. 32, Ess. xxiii. p. 96, and Shakespeare, Troilus 
and Cressida, i. 3. 85: ‘The heavens themselves, the planets, and this 
centre. On the slowness with which the Copernican theory was diffused, 
and especially Bacon’s opposition to it, see Whewell’s Hist. of the Ind. 
Sciences, i, 404-412, ed. 1847. Copernicus died in 1543, and his 
opinions were introduced into England mainly through Giordano Bruno, 
who came over about 1583. [31] Arist. Phys. i. 1, 
P. 128. [7-11] In the Latin the sources of information are indicated; 
viz. the lives of the philosophers, Plutarch’s collection of their opinions, 
the quotations of Plato, the refutation of Aristotle, and the scattered 
notices in Lactantius, Philo, Philostratus, and the rest. [12] severedly: 
The editions of 1605, 1633 all read ‘severely,’ but ‘severedly’ is the 
reading in ed. 1629 and in the Errata to ed. 1605. Mr. Markby reads 
‘severally’ in the same sense. [23, 24] The Latin more clearly, Neque 
absimilis est ratio philosophie, quando proponitur integra, et quando in 
frusta concisa et dissecta. [26] Theophrastus of Hohenheim, called 
Paracelsus, was born at Einsiedlen near Zurich in 1493; died at 
Salzburg in the 47th year of his age, 24 Sept. 1541. His works on 
chemistry and medicine were collected in ten volumes and printed at 
Frankfort in 1603. [28] Severinus: Petrus Severinus, a Danish phy- 
sician, born at Ripen in 1542, died in 1602, The work in which he 
reduced into harmony the philosophy of Paracelsus was Idea Medicinze 
