BOOK II. 323 



Mr. Spedding reads honor. If any conjecture were necessary, 

 humour might be suggested. [Ib.] in it: in name* ed. 1605, 

 corrected in Errata and ed. 1629. Mr. Spedding conjectures that 

 the true reading may be in the same, though he prints in name 

 doubtfully. 



P. 219. [6] Eccl. xi. 4, quoted again in Essay lii., Of Ceremonies 

 and Respects (p. 212): Salomon saith; He that consiJereth the wind, 

 shall not sow, and he that looketh to the clouds, shall not reape. A wise 

 man will make more opportunities then he findes. Mens behaviour 

 should be like their apparell, not too strait, or point device, but free 

 for exercise or motion. The whole Essay should be read in connexion 

 with this passage. [15] hath been elegantly handled: A MS. note in 

 the margin of a copy of the Advancement of Learning (ed. 1605) in the 

 Cambridge Univ. Library is per il Guazzo, that is, Stefano Guazzo, 

 who wrote La Civil Conversatione in four books. The first three 

 books were translated into English by George Pettie in 1581. Another 

 edition, including a translation of the fourth book by B. Young, ap 

 peared in 1586. [20, 21] Comp. Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his 

 travels: An authority of an English proverb, made in despite of 

 learning, that the greatest clerks are not the wisest men. (Spedding s 

 Letters and Life of Bacon, ii. 12.) See Montaigne, Ess. i. 24, and 

 a saying of Heraclitus of Ephesus, noXvp.a.Oi^ vuov ov SiSdatefi (Diog. 

 Laert. ix. i). [24] for wisdom of behaviour: i.e. with regard to 

 wisdom of behaviour. [30] except some few scattered advertisements : 

 Lat. prater pauca quadam monita civilia in fasciculum unum vel altentm 

 collecta. [33] as the other : i. e. as of the others. Lat. sicut de cateris. 

 [Ib.] with mean (i. e. moderate) experience : Lat. aliquo experiential 

 manipulo instructi. 



P. 220. [2] and outshoot them in their own bow: Lat. et proprio 

 illorum (quod dicitur) arcu usi magis e longinquo ferirent. Bacon uses 

 the same expression in Essay Iv. p. 220. [9] Cicero, De Oral. iii. 33. 

 33. !34- L lb -] it: was then in use: i- e - &quot;* tne times of which he 

 was writing, a little before his own. Lat. paulo ante sua secula. [i 2] 

 in the Place: Lat. in foro. [20] cases: So in ed. 1605; causes in 

 ed, 1629, 1633. Lat. in ca^ibus particularibus. [21] cases: causes 

 in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. Lat. casuum consimilium. Perhaps we 

 should read cases in both instances. [22] Q. Cicero: Q. is omitted 

 in ed. 1605, but added in the Errata, and in edd. 1629, 1633. [24] 

 Mr. Ellis adds Frontinus s tract Dt AqucEductibus. [31] i Kings 

 iv. 29. 



P. 221. [3] The number of examples in the De Augmentis is in 

 creased to thirty-four, which are arranged in a different order and 

 discussed at much greater length. The I4th and 2ist in the Advance 

 ment are omitted altogether in the De Augmentis. The quotations, 



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