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solus llteratns full. [22] fathers: Father in ed. 1605. [24] Amm. Marc, 

 xxii. 10. 7; xxv. 4. 19. Comp. Gibbon, ch. 23 ; Juliani Epist. xlii. The 

 Lat. adds catera viri egregii. [30] Paulus Diaconus, iii. par. 33. Comp. 

 Ess. Iviii. p. 232 ; Gibbon, ch. 45. 



p. eo. [4] Scythians : The Scythians or Tartars invaded the Gothic 

 empire A.D. 375. See Gibbon, ch. 26. [5] Saracens: The Arabs under 

 Abubeker conquered Syria A.D. 633-639. See Gibbon, ch. 51. [9-16] 

 And we see ... knowledges : Omitted in the Latin. [22 &c.] With this 

 paragraph compare Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 221. [27] Pss. 

 xix. civ. 



P- 5*. [3-8] Comp. Nov. Org. i. 89. [4] Matt. xxii. 29. This text 

 is made the subject of the section De Haeresibus in Bacon s Medita- 

 tiones Sacrse. [25] See Herodian, Hist. iv. 2. [26] dives in some 

 copies of ed. 1605. [32] honours heroical: honour heroicall in edd. 

 1605, 1629, 1633. 



P. 52. [1-19] Comp. Of the Interpretation of Nature, p. 223: The 

 dignity of this end (of endowment of man s life with new commodities) 

 appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided there 

 unto. For whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, 

 fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of Worthies or 

 Demigods, inventors were ever consecrated amongst the Gods them 

 selves. And if the ordinary ambitions of men lead them to seek the 

 amplification of their own power in their countries, and a better ambi 

 tion than that hath moved men to seek the amplification of the power of 

 their own countries amongst other nations, better again and more worthy 

 must that aspiring be which seeketh the amplification of the power and 

 kingdom of mankind over the world ; the rather because the other two 

 prosecutions are ever culpable of much perturbation and injustice ; but 

 this is a work truly divine, which cometh in aura lent without noise or 

 observation. [9] as was: So in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. For construc 

 tion compare Luke v. 10. [13, 14] for a latitude of ground: Lat. pro 

 amplitudine traclus terra. [18] coming in: In ed. 1605 this is printed 

 com- in, the first syllable occurring at the end of a line. It was altered 

 to commonly in in edd. 1629, 1633, but the passage Of the Interpretation 

 of Nature above quoted, and the Lat. veniuntque in aura lent, show that 

 coming in is the true reading. The Vulgate of I Kings xix. 12 is post 

 ignem sibilus aura, tenuis. Bacon uses the expression again in a letter to 

 Sir Toby Matthew (Life and Letters, ed. Spedding, iii. 74). [24] Philo- 

 strati Junioris Imagines, vii. Comp. Discourse on the Plantation in 

 Ireland (Life and Letters, iv. 117), and De Sapientia Veterum, n. 



P. 53. [10] Plato, Repub. v. p. 473. A favourite saying of Antoninus 

 Pius (Capitolinus, Vit. Ant. P. c. 27). Rabelais, Gargant. i. 45. [31] six 

 princes : six sciences in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. [33] for temporal 

 respects : We should say in temporal respects. 



