CCCcii LIFE OF BACON. 



despair of that grant, how much soever his fortunes needed 

 it. &quot; Be it so,&quot; said his lordship; and then he dismissed 

 his friend very cheerfully, with thankful acknowledgements 

 of his service. His friend being gone, he came straightway 

 to Dr. Rawley, and said thus to him, &quot; Well, Sir, yon 

 business won t go on, let us go on with this, for this is 

 in our power :&quot; and then he dictated to him afresh, for 

 some hours, without the least hesitancie of speech, or dis 

 cernible interruption of thought, (a) 



He proceeded with his literary labours, and, during this 

 year, published in Latin his celebrated treatise &quot; De Aug- 

 mentis Scientiarum&quot;(&) and his important &quot; Historia Vitse 

 et Mortis.&quot; (c) 



DeAug- Between the year 1605, when the Advancement was 

 mentls&amp;lt; published, (d) and the year 1623, he made great progress in 

 the completion of the work, which, having divided into nine 

 books, and subdivided each book into chapters, he caused 

 to be translated into Latin by Mr. Herbert, and some 

 other friends, and published in Latin in 1623, (e) in a 



(a) Baconiana. (b) See vols. viii. and ix. 



(c) See vol. x. for Latin, and vol. xiv. for English. 



(rf) See vol. ii. 



(e) In the year 1622 Lord Bacon wrote an Advertisement touching an 

 Holy War, to the Bishop of Winchester (see vol. vii. p. 112), in which he 

 thus mentions the treatise &quot; De Augmentis :&quot; &quot; That my book of Advance 

 ment of Learning may be some preparative or key for the better opening of 

 the Instauration, because it exhibits a mixture of new conceits and old ; 

 whereas the Instauration gives the new unmixed, otherwise than with some 

 little aspersion of the old for taste s sake ; I have thought good to procure 

 a translation of that book into the general language, not without great and 

 ample additions and enrichment thereof, especially in the second book, 

 which handleth the partition of sciences ; in such sort, as I hold it may 

 serve in Heu of the first part of the Instauration, and acquit my promise in 

 that part.&quot; 



In his letter to Fulgentio (vol. xii. p. cciii.), he says, &quot; 1 judged it most 



