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P. 162. [i] is : Compare Macbeth, i. 3. 141 : 



And nothing is 

 But what is not. 



[Ib.] an element of fire : Empedocles recognised the existence of four 

 elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and among these gave the most 

 important place to fire. Heraclitus assumed the elemental principle to 

 be fire, as the most subtle and active of the elements. See Tennemann, 

 Manual of the Hist, of Phil. 103, 106, trans. Johnson. [5] Prota 

 goras affirmed that man is the measure of all things. Arist. Met. x. 6. 

 [7] The Anthropomorphites, who were a branch of the Monophysites, 

 held that God was of human shape, and interpreted literally all the 

 passages in the Scriptures in which mention is made of his eye, ear, arm, 

 or hand. See Gibbon, Decline and Fall, c. 47 ; Nicephorus, Hist. Eccl. 

 xiii. 10. The monastic sect of Audseans, founded by Audseus, or Audius, 

 in Mesopotamia in the fourth century, maintained that the expression, 

 God created man in his own image, is to be understood in its most 

 literal sense. A sect of Anthropomorphites was in existence in Italy in 

 the tenth century. [8] Epicurus : Cic. De Nat. Deor. ii. 1 7, &c. Comp. 

 Of the Interp. of Nat. p. 241, for the original form of much in this para 

 graph, [n] Cic. De Nat. D.eor. i. 9, 22 : Quid autem erat quod concu- 

 pisceret Deus, mundum signis et luminibus, tanquam &amp;lt;xdilis, ornare f [Ib.] 

 Epicurean: In the ed. of 1605 this is spelt Epicurian, but in p. 191 the 

 spelling is the same in the old as in the modern editions. The word in 

 Bacon s time was pronounced with the accent on the third syllable, as 

 in Shakespeare, Ant. and Cl. ii. i. 24: 



Epicurean cooks 



Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. 



[13] The curule sediles were at first appointed to take charge of the 

 ludi Romani, but the ludi scenici, or dramatic representations, and the 

 ludi megalesii also came under their control. The decoration of the 

 Argentaria, with the gilded shields of the Samnites, at the triumph of 

 Papirius, in B. c. 309, is said to have first suggested to the Aediles the 

 idea of ornamenting the Forum and its vicinity with statues, pictures, 

 embroidery, and other works of art, during solemn processions and the 

 celebration of the public games. (Ramsay, Rom. Ant. p. 159.) [19] 

 number : numbers in some copies of ed. 1605. [22] Let us consider 

 again : i. e. Again, let us consider, c. These false appearances are the 

 Idols of the Cave. See Nov. Org. i. 42. [24] Plato, Repub. vii. sub init. 

 P. 163. [i] in our first book : See p. 40. [3] These are the Idols of 

 the Marketplace : See Nov. Org. i. 43. [7] This is quoted as a saying 

 of Aristotle by Roger Bacon, Opus Majus, i. 4 : Quare Philosophus dicit in 

 secundo Topicorum, quod sentiendum est ut panel, licet loquendum sit utplures. 

 He was perhaps thinking of Aristotle, Top. ii. 2. 5. He that wyll wryte 

 well in any tongue, must folowe thys councel of Aristotle, to speake as 



