

NOTE A A A. 



will be seen that, although they consist of the same words, the spelling of the 

 word &quot; be&quot; is in various places different. It probably is the same in other 



jes. 



In 1808 another edition in octavo was published. It was edited by Mr. 

 Mallet, a great admirer of Lord Bacon. I know him well, and think of him 

 with affection and respect. He was cut off in his prime. The following is a 

 copy of the title page : The Two Books of Francis Bacon. Of the Projicience 

 and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human. To the King. London: 

 printed by J. M GYeery, /be T . Panne, Pall Matt. Mallet says, that his edition 

 is corrected from the original edition of 1605 : numerous errors having crept 

 into many of the later editions, especially in the Latin quotations. 



In the year 1825, another edition in octavo was published. The following is 

 the title page : The Two Books of Francis Lord Verulam. Of the Projicience 

 and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human. To the King. London. 

 William Pickering^ M.DCCC.XXV. 1 wrote the preface to this edition. Some 

 person was procured by the publisher to translate, and very badly has he trans 

 lated, the various Latin quotations in different parts of the volume. 



There is another 12mo. edition, a very neat pocket volume. 



Of the Projicience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human. By 

 Francis Lord Bacon. London : printed and published by J. F. Dove, St. John t 

 Square. 1828. 



NOTE BBB. 



Novum Ofgannm. 



(Rawley. 



1. Observations by different authors. &amp;lt;Tennison. 



2. Different editions. (Montagu. 



3. Translations. 



4. Tracts relating to. 



5. Nature of the work. 



6. Miscellaneous. 



Observations by different authors. 

 Rawley s Observations upon Novum Organum. 



Ben Jonson says, &quot; I have ever observed it to have been the office of a wise 

 patriot, among the greatest affairs of the state, to take care of the commonwealth 

 of learning. For schools, they are the seminaries of state, and nothing is 

 worthier the study of a statesman, than that part of the republic which we call 

 the Advancement of Letters. Witness the care of Julius Caesar, who in the 

 heat of the civil war writ his book of Analogy, and dedicaled them to Tully. 

 This made the late Lord St. Albans entitle his work Novum Orgunum, which, 

 though by the most of superficial men, who cannot get beyond the title of nomi- 

 nals, it is a work not penetrated or understood; it really openeth all defects of 

 learning whatsoever, and is a book 



Qui longum noto scriptori proroget &amp;lt;evum. 



Dr. Rawley, in his life of Lord Bacon, says, &quot; I have been induced to think, 

 that if there were a beam of knowledge derived from God upon any man in 

 these modern times, it was upon him : for though he was a great reader of 

 books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and 

 notions from within himself; which notwithstanding he vented with great 

 caution and circumspection. His book of Instauratione Magna (which in his 

 own account was the chiefest of his works,) was no slight imagination, or fancy 

 of his brain, but a settled and concocted notion, the production of many years 

 labour and travel. I myself have seen at the least twelve copies of the Instau- 

 ration, revised year by year one after another, and every year altered and 



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