BOOK II. 291 



law of Solon quoted by Demosthenes adv. Lept. p. 488, ^ \{y f 



P. 96. [7] De Aug. ii. 9. [Ib.] partition: portion in ed. 1605, cor- 

 rected in Errata. [12] giving but a touch of certain magnificent build 

 ings: that is, but slightly alluding to them. [13] Tac. Ann. xiii. 31. 

 [15] a kind of contemplative heraldry: that is, as is explained in the 

 Latin, a heraldry by which the rank of books as well as of persons 

 may be distinguished. [22] time: Mr. Spedding reads times. [24] 

 what passed day by day: For the construction compare Hamlet, i. 

 i. 33: What we two nights have seen. [25] Esth. vi. i. [28] Plut* 

 Symp. i. 6. i ; Alex. 23. 2, 76, &c. 



P. 97. [i] De Aug. ii. 10. [ 4 ] Mr. Ellis, in his note on the corres 

 ponding passage of the De Augmentis, remarks that the most cele 

 brated work of this kind is one with which Bacon was familiar, 

 the Discorsi of Macchiavelli, of which the narrative part is derived 

 from Livy. Sec what Bacon himself says, p. 225. [22] Comp Of the 

 Interpretation of Nature (Works, iii. 225) : For at that time the world 

 was altogether home-bred, every nation looked little beyond their own 

 confines or territories, and the world had no through lights then, as it 

 hath had since by commerce and navigation, whereby there could 

 neither be that contribution of wits one to help another, nor that 

 variety of particulars for the correcting of customary conceits. See 

 also Nov. Org. i. 84. [27] Virg. Georg. i. 250. 



P. 98. [i] in their word : Lat. in symbolo suo. [2] plus ultra: Charles 

 the Fifth s motto. [3] imitabile fulmen : referring to the invention of 

 gunpowder. [5] Virg. /En. vi. 590. [7] Fernando de Magalhaens (or 

 Magellan) was the first navigator who sailed round the world, 1519- 

 1522. Drake s voyage was in 1577-1 579. [14] Dan. xii. 4. The 

 quotation in the text, which is from the Vulgate, is altered in the Latin 

 to augebitur scientia. [21] De Aug. ii. u. [22] in the propriety 

 thereof: Lat. proprio vero nomine. 



P. 99. [u] Ps. xc. 4; 2 Pet. iii. 8. [23] r Cor. ii. 14. [26] Eph. 

 ii. 12. [28] Hab. ii. 2. This very common form of misquotation of 

 this passage appears to have had its origin in Coverdale s Version; 

 that who so commeth by, may rede it. The correct rendering is 

 that given in the English Bible ; that he may run that readeth it. 



P. loo. [4] De Aug. ii. 12. [a6] it is a great loss of that book of 

 Caesar s : A loose construction equivalent to it is a great loss, viz. the 

 loss of that book of Caesar s. 



P. 101. [4-6] one of the cells . . . which is that of the memory: 

 Comp. Burton, Anat. of Mel. Parti. Sec. i. Mem. 2. Subs. 4. The 

 fourth creek, behind the head, is common to the cerebel or little brain, 

 and marrow of the back-bone, the least and most solid of all the rest, 

 which receives the animal spirits from the other ventricles, and conveys 



