XXXIV LIFE OF BACO\ f . 



fortunes, and, by the gift of an estate, worth about 1800. 

 at the beautiful village of Twickenham, endeavoured to 

 remunerate him for his great loss of time and grievous 

 disappointment, (a) 



How bitterly Bacon felt the disgrace of the Queen s re 

 jection is apparent by his own letter, where he says,- that 

 &quot; rejected with such circumstances, he could no longer 

 look upon his friends, and that he should travel, and hoped 

 that her majesty would not be offended that, no longer 

 able to endure the sun, he had fled into the shade.&quot; (b) 



His greatest annoyance during this contest had arisen 

 from the interruption of thoughts generally devoted to 

 higher things. After a short retirement, &quot; where he once 

 again enjoyed the blessings of contemplation in that sweet 

 solitariness which collecteth the mind, as shutting the eyes 

 does the sight,&quot; during which he seems to have invented 

 an instrument resembling a barometer, (c) he resumed his 

 usual habits of study, consoled by the consciousness of 

 worth, which, though it may at first embitter defeat from 

 a sense of injustice, never fails ultimately to mitigate dis 

 appointment, by ensuring the sympathy of the wise and 

 the good. 



This cloud soon passed away; for, though Bacon had 

 stooped to politics, his mind, when he resumed his natural 

 position, was far above the agitation of disappointed am 

 bition. During his retirement he wrote to the Queen, 

 expressing his submission to the providence of God, which 

 he says findeth it expedient for me &quot; tolerare jugum in 

 juventute meet;&quot; and assuring her majesty that her service 

 should not be injured by any want of his exertions. (d} His 

 forbearance was not lost upon the Queen, who, satisfied 

 with her victory, soon afterwards, with an expression of 



(a) See note W W at the end. (c) See note Y Y at the end. 



(b} See note XX at the end. (d) See note Z Z at the end. 



