CCCCXX11 LIFE OF BACON. 



The conversion of certain Psalms into English verse, (p) 

 The translation into Latin of the History of King Henry 

 the Seventh; of the Counsels, civil and moral ; (r) 

 of the dialogue of the Holy War; (5) of the fable of 

 the New Atlantis : (t) for the benefit of other nations. 

 His revising of his book De Sapientia Veterum. (u) 

 Inquisitio de Magnete. (x) 

 Topica Inquisitionis ; de Luce, et Lumine. (//) 

 Lastly, Sylva Sylvarum; or the Natural History, (z) 



&quot; He also designed, upon the motion and invitation of his 

 late majesty, to have written the Reign of King Henry 

 the Eighth ; (a) but that work perished in the designation 

 merely, God not lending him life to proceed further upon 

 it than only in one morning s work : whereof there is 

 extant an Ex Ungue Leonem.&quot; 



Such were his works during the short period, when 

 between sixty and seventy years of age, he, fortunately for 

 himself and society, was thrown from active into contem 

 plative life; into that philosophical seclusion, where he 

 might turn from calumny, from the slanders of his enemies, 

 to the admiration of all civilized Europe ; from political 

 rancour and threats of assassination to the peaceful safety 

 of sequestered life ; from the hollow compacts which poli 

 ticians call union, formed by expediency and dissolved at 

 the first touch of interest, to the enduring joys of intel 

 lectual and virtuous friendship and the consolations of 

 piety. (b) 



(/)) Vol. vii. p. 98. (r) Vol. xv. (s) Vol. vii. 



(0 Vol. ii. (M) Vol. iii. (x) Vol. xi. p. 227. 



(y) Vol. x. p. 440. (z) Vol. iv. () Vol. iii. p. 418. 



(b} Such are the joys of active intellectual seclusion. &quot; Si Descartes 

 eut quelques foiblesses de Thumanite, il eut aussi les principals vertus du 

 philosophe. Sobre, temperant, ami de la liberte et de la retraite, recon- 

 noissant liberal, sensible a 1 amitie, tendre, compatissant, il ne connoissoit 



