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sciences ; in such sort, as I hold it may serve in lieu 

 of the first part of the Instauration, and acquit my 

 promise in that part.&quot; 



Such are the different sentiments expressed by 

 Lord Bacon of his favourite work. 



The notices of this work by his faithful Secre 

 tary and Biographer Dr. Rawley, and his admirer 

 Archbishop Tenison, are as follows : 



Dr. Rawley, in his life of Lord Bacon, says, 

 &quot; I have been induced to think, that if there were 

 a beam of knowledge derived from God, upon any 

 man in these modern times, it was upon him : for 

 though he was a great reader of books, yet he had 

 not his knowledge from books, but from some 

 grounds and notions from within himself. Which, 

 notwithstanding, he vented with great caution and 

 circumspection. His book of Instauratio Magna 

 (which, in his own account, was the chiefest of his 

 works,) was no slight imagination or fancy of his 

 brain ; but a settled and concocted notion ; the 

 production of many years labour and travail. I my 

 self, have seen, at the least, twelve copies of the 

 Installation, revised, year by year, one after 

 another ; and every year altered and amended in 

 the frame thereof ; till, at last, it came to that mo 

 del in which it was committed to the press : as many 

 living creatures do lick their young ones till they 

 bring them, to their strength of limbs.&quot; 



And Archbishop Tenison, speaking of the 

 Novum Organum, says, (a) The second part of 

 (a) Baconiana. 28. 



