LIFE OF BACON. 



&quot; Lord Bacon s reading on the Statute of Uses is a very 

 profound treatise on the subject, so far as it goes, and 

 shows that he had the clearest conception of one of the 

 most abstruse parts of our law. What might we not have 

 expected from the hands of such a master, if his vast mind 

 had not so embraced within its compass the whole field of 

 science, as very much to detach him from his professional 

 studies?&quot; (b) 



There is an observation of the same nature by a cele 

 brated professor in another department of science, Sir John 

 Hawkins, who, in his History of Music, says, &quot; Lord Bacon, 

 in his Natural History has given a great variety of experi 

 ments touching music, that show him to have not been 

 barely a philosopher, an inquirer into the phenomena of 

 sound, but a master of the science of harmony, and very 

 intimately acquainted with the precepts of musical compo 

 sition.&quot; And, in coincidence with his lordship s sentiments 

 of harmony, he quotes the following passage : &quot; The 

 sweetest and best harmony is when every part or instru 

 ment is not heard by itself, but a conflation of them all, 

 which requireth to stand some distance off, even as it is in 

 the mixtures of perfumes, or the taking of the smells of 

 several flowers in the air.&quot; (b) 



With these legal and literary occupations he continued 

 without intermission his parliamentary exertions, there not 

 having been during the latter part of the Queen s reign 

 any debate in which he was not a distinguished speaker, 

 or any important committee of which he was not an active 

 member, (d) 



Ireland. Early in the year 1599 a large body of the Irish, denied 



1599. the protection of the laws, and hunted like wild beasts by 



39&amp;gt; an insolent soldiery, fled the neighbourhood of cities, shel- 



(6) See note 3 R at the end. (d) See note 3 S at the end. 



