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the common people do, to thinke as wise men do. Ascham s Toxophilus, 

 ed. Arber, p. 18. [9] The Tartars, says Dr Giles Fletcher, in his Russe 

 Commonwealth, c. 19. p. 67 (ed. 1591), are very expert horsemen, 

 & vse to shoot as readily backward, as forward. And Maundevile 

 (Voyage, &c., p. 304, ed. 1727): And 366 schulle undirstonde, that it is 

 gret drede for to pursue the Tartarines, jif thei fleen in Bataylle. For in 

 fleynge, thei schooten behynden hem, and sleen bothe men and Hors. 

 Comp. Speech on the Subsidy Bill (Life and Letters, ii. 89) : Sure I am 

 it was like a Tartar s or Parthian s bow, which shooteth backward. 

 [30] so slightly touched: The Lat. has siquidem Aristoteles rem nolavit, 

 tnodum rei nullibi persecutes est. 



P. 164. [2] syllogism: sophisme in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata. 



[3] Arist. Prior. Anal. ii. 5 ; Post. Anal. ii. 13. [4-7] The construction 



here is loose. We ought correctly to read, every of these hath certain 



subjects ... in which respectively it hath chiefest use ; and certain others, 



from which it ought &c. But Bacon regarded every of these as 



equivalent to all these, and finished the sentence accordingly. A 



similiar construction is found in Shakespeare, Mid. N. s Dr. ii. I. 90-92 : 



Contagious fogs, which falling in the land 



Have every pelting river made so proud, 



That they have overborne their continents. 



[16] De Augm. v. 5. [18, 20] for : i. e. as for. [28] a matter of great 

 use and essence: Lat. magni prorsus rem esse usus et firmitudinis. [31] 

 and contracteth judgement to a strength : Lat. et aciem judicii in unum 

 contrabat. 



P. 165. [6] An art there is extant of it: Cornelius Agrippa, in his 

 Vanitie of the Sciences, has a chapter Of the Arte of Memorie : 

 Among these Artes, the Arte of Memorie is also accoumpted, whiche 

 (as Cicero saithe) is nothing els, but a certaine induction and order of 

 teaching, consisting of places and Images, as it were in a paper, deuised, 

 firste in Caracters by Sitnonides Melito, afterwaide broughte to perfection 

 by Metrodorus Scepticus. . . . Cicero hath written thereof in his newe 

 Rhetorike, Quintilian in his Institutions, Seneca, and of the fresher sorte. 

 Franciscus Petrarcha, Mareolus of Verona, Petrus of Ravenna, and 

 Hermannus Buschius, and others, but vnworthie of rehersal, men little 

 knowen (Eng. trans, cap. 10, ed. 1575). Giordano Bruno also wrote an 

 Ars Memorise. [27] dischargeth : i.e. dismisses, relieves us of. 



P. 1 66. [3] distinguish: i.e. assert distinctly, decide. Bacon refers to 

 what he said on p. 84 : my purpose is, at this time, to note only 

 omissions and deficiencies, and not to make any redargution of errors, or 

 incomplete prosecutions. [5] De Augm. vi. i. [12] the organ of 

 tradition : The Latin adds qua et grammatica dicitur. [13] Arist. De 

 Interp. i. i. [15] it: Omitted in editions of 1605, 1629, 1633. [24] 

 China, and the kingdoms of the High Levant: In Acosto s Naturall and 



