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paraded. [26, -27] Which age, because it is the age of least authority, 

 it is transferred &c. : Observe the looseness of construction in the 

 unnecessary repetition of the pronoun it: the words which age being 

 placed foremost in the sentence without any government as a kind of 

 nominativus pendens. Other examples occur in the course of this book, 

 pp. 2, 11. 17, 18; 39, 11. 10, n, 32, 33; 48, 11. 20-24. Comp. the 

 Authorized Version of John xiii. 3, 4 ; Jesus knowing . . . he riseth &c. 



P. 21. [4] Joel. ii. 28. Comp. Ess. xlii. p. 175 : A certaine rabbiue. 

 upon the text ; Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall 

 dreame dreames ; inferreth, that young men are admitted nearer to God 

 then old; because vision is a clearer revelation, then a dreame. The 

 rabbine is Abrabanel. [6] they: Some copies of ed. 1605 read the. 

 [8] condition ... hath : In ed. 1605 the reading is conditions ... hath ; 

 in ed. 1633, conditions . . . have. [9] Comp. Florio s Montaigne, p. 60, 

 ed. 1603 : I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed, to see a Pedant 

 brought in, in most of Italian Comedies, for a vice or sporte-maker. 

 [16-21] The whole clause is modified in the De Augmentis to avoid 

 giving offence to the Roman Catholics. It there stands as follows: 

 quorum cum intueor industriam solertiamque tarn in doctrina excolenda 

 quam in moribus informandis, illud occurrit Agesilai de Pharnabazo &c. 

 [17] A saying of Diogenes. See Diog. Laert. vi. 46. Comp. Apoph. 

 266. [21] Plutarch, Ages. xii. 5. [28] Ovid, Epist. xv. 83. Quoted 

 again in Ess. 1. p. 205. [28-30] Lat. atque literas, nisi incident in 

 ingenia admodum depravata, corrigere prorsus naturam et mutare in melius. 

 [33] not inherent : The negative is superfluous, or something has been 

 omitted. The Latin has nullum occurrit dedecus lileris ex literatorum 

 moribus, quatenus sunt literati, adhcerens, where inherent is taken as 

 referring to disgrace, and not to manners, as Mr. Spedding explains 

 it : not [I mean, from such manners as are] inherent &c. 



P. 22. [n] Plutarch, Solon, 15; Bacon, Apoph. 93. [14] Plato, 

 Epist. vii. p. 331. Mr. Ellis suggested that Bacon probably took it 

 from Cicero, Epist. Fam. i. 9. 18. [17] Epist. i. ad Caes. De Republica 

 Ordinanda. [20] Cic. ad Att. ii. I. 8: optima animo utens et summajide, 

 nocet inter dum reipublicce. Dicit enim tanquam in Platonis iro\iTtiq, non 

 tanquam in Romuli face, sententiam. [23] doth excuse and expound: 

 Lat. molli interpretation excusat. [25] Cic. pro Muraena, 31 : Ettnim 

 isti ipsi mihi videntur vestri prceceptores et virtutis magistri fines officiorum 

 &c. [29] Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 548. 



P. 23. [2] Demosthenes, De Cherson. p. 106. [8] quinquennium 

 Neronis: See Aurelius Victor, De Caesar, v. 2. [10] The Latin adds, 

 magno suo periculo, ac po&tremo pracipitio. [13] the casualty of their 

 fortunes: Lat. instabilitatis fortune. [20] Matt. xxv. 20. [21 &c.] 

 Compare with this Essay xxiii. Of wisdome for a man s selfe. [23] 

 nor never: Observe the double negative. [25] lines: Some copies of ed. 



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