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pointed, the sentences concise, and the composition rather twisted than 

 flowing. Instances are found largely in Seneca, less in Tacitus and 

 Plinius Secundus. [13] Lat. neque theologiam tantum, sed etiatn omnes 

 scientias respicere videtur. [Ib.] I Tim. vi. 20. Quoted again in Ess. iii. 

 p. ii. [17] the strictness of positions : Lat. rigor dogmatum. [26] p. 

 32 [9] This kind . . . profit : The original of this passage is to be found 

 in Bacon s Cogit. de Sci. Hum. Frag. i. cog. 10 (Works, iii. 187). 



P. 32. [7] cobwebs: ed. 1605, copwebs, the older form of spelling. In 

 Old English, atter cop (A. S. dttor coppa) is a spider. [20] See 

 JEsop, Fab. 52. Vis unita fortior : Bacon, Colours of Good and Evil, 

 p. 255, ed. W. A. Wright. [27] Quintil. x. I : Si rerum pondera 

 minutissimis sententiis non fregissef, consensn potius eruditorum quam 

 puerorum amore comprobaretur. Quoted again in Ess. xxvi. p. 105. 



P. 33. [10] Virg. Eel. vi. 75. Bacon makes use of the same figure in 

 his book Of the Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 232, ed. Spedding). 

 [22] ot A.0701 ffov fepovTiuai. Diog. Laert. Plato, iii. 18. Quoted again 

 in Nov. Org. i. 71. [29] p. 34. [4] but as they are ... unto them : 

 Omitted in the Latin, for the same reason as before. For the original 

 form see Of the Interp. of Nat. p. 224. [30] fierce with dark keeping : 

 that is, as Mr. Ellis explains it, fierce with being kept in the dark, like 

 animals. He quotes from Bacon s Cogitationes de Scientia Humana, 

 1st frag. cog. 10 (Works, iii. 187) : ferocitatetn autem et confidentiam earn 

 qua illos qui pauca sequi solet (ut animalia in tenebris educatd) 

 acqnisivissent, 



P. 34. [8] the essential form : Lat. ipsam naturam animamqne. [19] 

 Hor. Epist. i. 18. 69. [24] Tac. Ann. v. 10 ; comp. Hist. i. 51. [25] 

 hath for have : a loose construction, not uncommon in Bacon. See 

 p. 35, 1. 26 : Such whereupon observation and rule was to be built. 

 Also p. 109, 1. 33, and Ps. xiv. 7, Pr. Bk. Destruction and unhappiness 

 is in their ways. [29] or, as : or is omitted in ed. 1605, but inserted 

 in Errata and in edd. 1629, 1633. 



P. 35. [3-10] which though . . . religion: Omitted in the Latin as 

 before, pp. 21, 28, 33. [3] had a passage for a time: The ed. 1605 

 reads, had a passage for time. Perhaps it should be, had passage for 

 a time, that is, were current for a time. [13] Plinius: Plinius 

 secundtis of Verona; a man of great Eloquence, and industry inde 

 fatigable, as may appear by his writings, especially those now extant, 

 and which are never like to perish, but even with learning it self; that 

 is, his natural History. He was the greatest Collector or Rhapso- 

 dist of the Latines, and as Suetonius observeth, he collected this piece 

 out of two thousand Latine and Greek Authors. Now, what is very 

 strange, there is scarce a popular error passant in our dayes, which 

 is not either directly expressed, or diductively contained in this work. 

 Sir T. Brown, Vulgar Errors, book i. chap. 8, p. 33 (ed. 1658). [Ib.] 



