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philosophy, bringeth mens mindes about to Religion: for while the 

 minde of man, looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes 

 rest in them, and goe no further: but when it beholdeth, the chaine 

 of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs flie to providence, 

 and del tie. 



P. 10. [5] Horn. II. viii. 19. Comp. also p. 109, 1. 24. Plato, 

 Theoet. i. 1530. [25] too incompatible and differing: Lat. nimis 

 extravagantia. [31] Plutarch, Cato, 22 ; Pliny, N. H. vii. 31. 



P. ii. [15] Virgil, .En. vi. 852. [16] Plato, Apol. Socr. i. 19, 

 24 &c. Xenophon, Mem. i. i. i. [28] Comp. Ess. Iviii. pp. 237, 

 238 : In the youth of a state, armes doe flourish : in the middle age 

 of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time: 

 in the declining age of a state, mechanicall arts and merchandize. 



P. 12. [9] a greater: So ed. 1640; a is omitted in edd. 1605, 1629, 

 lf &amp;gt;33- [i4- 20 ] Comp. Ess. Iviii. pp. 237, 238, quoted above. [16] 

 about an age : i. e. about the same age. According to Aristotle (Rhet. 

 ii. 14. 4) the body is strongest from thirty to thirty-five, the mind 

 at forty-nine. [25] a few pleasing receipts : Lat. pauca qucedam medica- 

 menta qua Hits videntur panchresta. [27] the complexions of patients: 

 Lat. agrotorum habitus. [28] peril of accidents: Lat. symptomatum 

 pericula. See p. 137, 1. 20. 



P. 13. [i 6] Suetonius, Nero, 7; Tac. An. xiii. [17] Gordianus III. 

 (238-244) married the daughter of Misitheus, of whom Gibbon (c. vii.) 

 says, The life of Misitheus had been spent in the profession of letters, 

 not of arms ; yet such was the versatile genius of that great man, that, 

 when he was appointed Praetorian prefect, he discharged the military 

 duties of his place with vigour and ability. Capitolinus, Gordian. Tert. 

 c. 23. The name Misitheus is supposed to be corrupted from Temesitheus 

 or Timesitheus. [20] Alexander Severus succeeded after the murder of 

 his cousin Elagabalus, March 10, 222. But as Alexander was a modest 

 and dutiful youth of only seventeen years of age, the reins of govern 

 ment were in the hands of two women, of his mother Mamoea, and of 

 Mnesa his grandmother. After the death of the latter, who survived but 

 a short time the elevation of Alexander, Mamoea remained the sole-regent 

 of her son and of the empire. Gibbon, c. vi. [24] Pius V. (Michele 

 Ghislieri) was a Dominican and had been Grand Inquisitor. He was 

 Pope from 1565 to 1572. The victory over the Turks off Lepanto was 

 won in his time. See Bacon, Adv. touching an Holy War (vii. p. 19). 

 Sixtus V. (Felice Peretti) was appointed by Pius V. vicar-general of the 

 Franciscans, and afterwards promoted to the College of Cardinals as 

 Cardinal Montalto. He succeeded Gregory XIII. in 1585, and reigned 

 till 1590. Gibbon (c. 70) says of him, The genius of Sixtus the Fifth 

 burst from the gloom of a Franciscan cloister. See Ranke, Hist, of 

 the Popes, trans. Foster, Books iii. and iv. [26] pedantical : So all the 



