NOTES 3 I 3 K. 



Essays Politques et Moraux de Messire Francois Bacon, Grand Chancelier 

 d Angleteire mis en notre langue par C. Baudouin. A Paris, chez Francois 

 Tulhot au pied des ponts degres du, Palais, au soleil (for. MDCXXXI. Avec 

 privilege du Roy. 



Post Nubila Surget Memories Sacrum. Les Oevvres Morales et Politiques de 

 Messire Francois Bacon, grand Chancelier d Angleterre de la version de I. Bau- 

 doin. M.D.C.XXVI. A Paris cliez Pierre Bacolet Francois Targa an Palais a 

 lentree de la galerie des Priers. 



In the Essay of Unity in Religion, Lord Bacon, in his English edition, says, 

 &quot; What would he have said, if he had known of the massacre in France, or the 

 Powder Treason of England V In this edition it is thus translated: &quot; Mais 

 qu eust il diet s il eust seen les sanglantes executions, et les horribles entrepiises 

 adveniies de nostre temps pour ce mesme sujetl&quot; This volume also contains 

 the translation of some of the apothegms : upon examining those which are 

 omitted, it will be seen how cautiously every apothegm has been avoided in 

 which a cardinal or pope is mentioned. 



Oeuvres de Francois Bacon, Chancelier d Angleterre. Traduites par Ant. 

 Lasalle. Avec des notes critiques, historiqnes et litteraires. Tome douzieme. 

 A Dijon, de I Imprimerie de L. N. Frantin. An. 10 de la Republiqne Fran$aise. 



Italian. 



Saggi Morali del Signore Francesco Bacono, Cavagliero Inglese, Gran Cance- 

 liero de Inchilterra. Con vn altro suo Trattato della Sapienza degli Antichi. 

 Tradotli in Italiano. In Londra appresso di Ciovani Billio. 1618. 



Saggi Morali Opera Nuova di Francesco Bacon, Corretta, et data in lace del 

 Sig. Cavalier Andrea Cioli Segretario di Stato del Sereniss. Gran Duca di Tos- 

 cana, et un Trattato della Sapienza de gli Antichi all illustris et excel. Sig. D. 

 Francesco Colonna Principe de Palest ina, fyc. Ristampata in Bracciano per 

 Andrea Fei. An licenza de Sup. 1621. Ad custanza di Pompilio Totti Librario 

 in Navona. 



Sette Saggi Morali Del Sig, Canalier Francesco Baccone non piu veduti, e 

 tradotti nell Italiano. Con trentaquatro Esplicationi d attretante Sentenze di 

 Salomone. Con Licenza de Saperiori, fy Priuilegio. In Venetia. Appresso 

 Gitolamo Piuti. Al monte Parnaso. 1626. 



Lord Bacon s Essays. London, printed by Bensley, 1798. 12mo. Four large 

 paper copies printed exclusively for the Countess Spencer. These four copies 

 were presented by Lady Spencer, one to the late Duke of Devonshire, one to the 

 late Rev. C. M. Cracherode, a third to the late Mr. James, and the. fourth to 

 his lordship. ^Edes Althorpianae, vol. i. p. 104. A copy, stated to be that of 

 Mr. James, in the catalogue of Payne and Foss, 1823, Supplement, marked 

 8/. 8s. 



It is a fact not unworthy of notice. The first book published in Philadel 

 phia consists partly of the volume of Essays. It is entitled &quot; The Temple 

 of Wisdom,&quot; printed by William Bradford, Philadelphia, 1688. 



3 K. Life, p. xxxvii. 



All his early tracts, those which seem to have been written by him when a 

 boy, are without imagery. See his treatise on Rhetoric, in the Advancement of 

 Learning, vol. ii. p. 210. See also his praise of writing in Aphorisms, vol. ii. 

 p. 203. It appears, therefore, that in after life he had recourse to method and 

 ornament to insure reception for the truths which he was anxious to communi 

 cate. It may, however, be thought that this imagery had not, as in many poets, 

 precedency in his mind, but followed in the train of his reason, and was used 

 merely as a mode of illustrating the truths which he wishes to explain. To 

 illustrate this, take (vol. ii. p. 5^1) the following passage: &quot; But the greatest 

 error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of 

 knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, 



