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and induce one habite of both: and there is no meanes to helpe this, but 

 by seasonable intermissions/ [33] and as it was noted : by Machiavelli, 

 Disc, sopra Livio, i. 19. 



P. 184. [a] was : Observe the construction, the whole of the previous 

 clause being the nominative. Or else we have here another instance of 

 a common error, by which the verb is made to agree in number with 

 the last substantive which precedes. [10] Tac. Ann. i. 16-22, quoted 

 from memory. In the Latin Bacon strongly recommends acting as a 

 branch of education, for though of ill repute as a profession yet as a 

 part of training it is one of the best. In this he fortifies himself by the 

 practice of the Jesuit schools. [15] mutiners, i.e. mutineers, the old 

 form of spelling in Bacon s time. Compare planners for pioneers (p. in) 

 in ed. 1605. In Shakespeare s Temp. iii. a. 41 the word is spelt muti 

 neers in the first folio, but in Coriol. i. i. 254 it is mutiners as here. 



P. 185 [13] that he were like to use: i. e. that he might be likely to 

 use. [i 6] had been to handle : We should now use the verb to have 

 instead of the verb to be in this idiom. But the latter was formerly 

 common. See Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. i. i. 5 : 



But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, 

 What stuff tis made of, whereof it is born, 

 I am to learn 



[27] De Augm. vii. i. [29] Prov. iv. 23. 



P. 186. [10] they pass it over altogether: Another instance of the 

 redundance of the pronoun, as in p. ao, 1. 27. [12] by habit and not by 

 nature: See Aristotle, Eth. Nic. ii. I. [13] Arist. Eth. Nic. x. 10. [27] 

 Seneca, Ep. ad Lucil. 52. 14. [33] Demosthenes, Olyn. ii. 8. 



P. 187. [10] Virg. Georg. iii. 289. [29] were as the heathen divinity: 

 Lat. qua ethnicis instar theologies erant. [30] Aristotle, Eth. Nic. i. i o ; 

 Rhet. ii. 12. 



P. 1 88. [3] than was: Lat. quam cujus ilia esset capax. [4] Seneca, 

 Ep. ad Lucil. 53. 12, quoted again in Essay v. p. 16: It is true 

 greatnesse, to have in one, the frailty of a man, and the security of a 

 god. [18] their triplicity of good: the threefold division of good as it 

 relates to mind, body, and estate. Aristotle, Eth. Nic. i. 8. 2. The 

 comparison between a contemplative and an active life : See Arist. Eth. 

 Nic. x. 6-8. [21] honesty and profit: Arist. Rhet. i. 6. [Ib.] balanc 

 ing of virtue with virtue: Arist. Eth. Nic. iii. iv. 



P. 189. [12] rather than to suffer : We should say rather than suffer. 

 [21] being in commission of purveyance for a famine; i.e. being com 

 missioned to make provision for a famine. [25] Plutarch, Pomp. c. 50. 

 [33] St. Paul in Rom. ix. 3, and Moses in Exod. xxxii. 32. Comp. Ess. 

 xiii. p. 50: But above all, if he have St. Pauls perfection, that he would 

 wish to be an anathema from Christ, for the salvation of his brethren, 



