NOTES ZZZZ XOT. 



&quot; By the earle of Shrewesbury, parte of a doublett of white satten, embro- 

 thered all over like snakes wounde together, of Venice sylver, with wroughte 

 and puffes of lawne embrolhered, with Venice sylver like wheate eares.&quot; 



The list then contains gifts by marquesses and countesses. By the bishops, 

 by lords, baronesses, ladies, knights, sundry gentlewomen and gentlemen, 

 including the gift of Mr. Francis Bacon, mentioned in the text. It concludes : 



&quot; Summa totalis of all the money given to her highness this year 754. 

 6s. 3d.&quot; 



Amongst these are somewhat whimsically arranged the physicians, apothe 

 caries, the master cook, several tradesmen and artificers, ending with Charles 

 Smith, Dustman, who gave &quot; two bottes of Cambric,&quot; and received twenty 

 ounces and a half of gilt plate. 



NOTE XOT. 



If man is under the influence of any passion more powerful than the love of 

 truth, he swerves from the truth. 



All the rules of evidence in courts of justice as to the incompetency of wit 

 nesses seem to be founded on this law : and the confession of a criminal, if it is 

 obtained by promises or threats, is not, by the law of England, permitted to be 

 adduced as evidence against him ; and a confession under the influence of hope 

 or fear is not admitted as evidence. 



&quot; Man would contend that two and two did not make four, if his interests were 

 affected by this position.&quot; Hobbs. 



&quot; The light of the understanding is not a dry and pure light, but drenched in 

 the will and affections, and the intellect forms the sciences accordingly. What 

 men desire should be true, they are most inclined to believe. The understanding, 

 therefore, rejects things difficult, as being impatient of inquiry : things just and 

 solid, because they limit hope ; and the deeper mysteries of nature, through 

 superstition : it rejects the light of experience through pride and haughtiness, 

 as disdaining the mind should be meanly and waverly employed : it excludes 

 paradoxes for fear of the vulgar ; and thus the affections tinge and infect the 

 understanding numberless ways and sometimes imperceptibly.&quot; Bacon. 



&quot; Agnus&quot; was the only combination which the wolf, learning to spell, could 

 make of the twenty-four letters of the alphabet. 



&quot; Not much 



Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought 

 Unfit to hear moral philosophy. 

 The reasons you allege do more conduce 

 To the hot passion of distempered blood 

 Than to make up a free determination 

 Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge 

 Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice 

 Of any true decision. &quot; Troilus and Cressida. 



In the memoirs of Baron Grimm, he says, &quot; Madame GeoffYin avail fait a 

 M. de Rhuliere des offres assez considerables pour 1 engager a jeter au feu son 

 Manuscrit sur la Russie. II lui pvouva tres eloquemment que ce serait de sa 

 part 1 action la plus indigne et la plus lache. A tout ce grand 6talage d hon- 

 neur, de vertu, de sensibilite qu elle avail paru couter avec beaucoup de 

 patience, elle ne lui repondit que ces deux mots: &quot; En voulez-vous davan- 

 tage V &quot; 



A certain English ambassador, who had for a time resided at the court of 

 Rome, was on his return introduced at the levee of Queen Caroline. This lady 

 asked him why in his absence he did not try to make a convert of the Pope to 

 the Protestant religion 1 He answered her, &quot;Madam, the reason was that I 

 had nothing better to offer his Holiness than what he already has in his 

 possession.&quot; 



