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discharging and attending to the duties of his office. [23-26] and 

 therefore . . . profession : Omitted in the Lat. [28] i Sam. xxx. 22. 



P. 80. [3] Virg. Georg. iii. 128. [4, 5] some alchemist . .. who call: 

 For another example of this loose construction see p. 19, 11. 8, 9, some 

 friar. . . to whom, &c. [10] Physic: Lat. medicina. [17] Lat. nee usu 

 mortuorum corporum ad observationes anatomicas destitui. [28] Pliny, 

 Hist. Nat. viii. 17. [31] travail: In edd. 1605, 1629, 1633, travailes. 

 [31, 32] much better . .. nature : Lat. certe majus quiddam debetur its, qui 

 non in saltibus naturae pererrant, sed in labyrinthis artium viam sibi aperhmt. 

 Mr. Spedding explains arts of nature as working upon and altering 

 nature by art. In p. 86 history of arts is equivalent to history of 

 nature altered or wrought. But from the expressions in the Latin 

 translation it would rather seem that by arts of nature Bacon intended 

 those recondite and intricate operations which are the subjects of inves 

 tigation by the experimental philosopher, as the chemist for example, 

 and which are contrasted with the more external manifestations with 

 which the naturalist deals, as the windings of a labyrinth with the open 

 glades of a forest. See Nov. Org. prsef. 



P. 81. [27] Cic. De Orator, iii. 26. [28] Cic. Orator. 24. 



P. 82. [22] Cic. Ep. ad Att. ix. 7. 



p. 83. [2] Lat. adeo ut habeant prcefectos (altos Provinciates, alios Gene- 

 rales} quibus omnes parent. [9] James i. 17. [23] Aaron, not Moses. 

 See Exod. vii. 12. [26] opera basilica, works for a king: Perhaps 

 Bacon was thinking of the basilica facinora of Plautus (Trin. iv. 3. 23). 

 [29] the inducing part: the introductory part. Lat. speculaliva ilia 

 pars. 



P. 84. [16] A mare et sapere vix Deo conceditur. Publ. Syr. Sent. 15. 

 Quoted again in Ess. x. p. 37. Comp. Ovid, Met. ii. 846 : Non bent 

 convenient nee in una sede morantur Majestas et amor. [20] Quoted from 

 Ennius by Cicero, De Off. i. 16. 



P. 85. [3] Prov. xxii. 13. [4] Virg. JEn. v. 231. [9-21] This 

 paragraph is much enlarged in the De Augmentis, ii. i. [22] De 

 Aug. ii. 4. In the De Augmentis Bacon makes only two divisions 

 of History, natural and civil; including in the latter history ecclesi 

 astical and literary. 



P. 86. [5] a. just story of learning; i.e. an accurate history. [21] 

 In De Augm. ii. 2 the same division is made but at greater length. 

 [32] the strange events of time and chance: Lat. casuum (ut ait ille) 

 ingenia. 



P. 87. [ii] it is never called down: Lat. nunquam postea exter- 

 minantur out retractantur. [13] The treatise De miris auscultationibus 

 attributed to Aristotle is now believed not to be by him. Bacon 

 again refers to it in p. 35, 1. 24. [Ib.] is nothing less than : i. e. is 

 by no means intended. [16] axioms: Mr. Kitchin, in his edition of 



