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pressly (e) and weightily (/) as the Novum Orga- 

 num : but they seem remarkable only for antithesis, 

 something like Fuller, without his spirit: a sort of 

 dry Fuller, or, as he would say, Fuller s earth : or 

 like the Essay on Death, published also in the Remains, 

 and ascribed without authority to the same illustrious 

 author, (d) 



The evidence in favour of the authenticity 

 of the Paradoxes, from the style is, that 1. Apho 

 risms are the favorite style of Lord Bacon. (#) 2. 



the quavering upon a stop in music, the same with the playing 

 of light upon the water? 

 Splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus : &quot; See vol. ii, p. 124. 



I could willingly indulge myself with the selection of other 

 instances, but remembering the admonition that &quot; it is not 

 granted to love and to be wise,&quot; I stop. 



(e) Ben Jonson in his Discoveries says, Dominus Verula- 

 mius. One though he be excellent, and the chief, is not to be 

 imitated alone ; for no imitator ever grew up to his author : 

 likeness is always on this side of truth ; yet there happened in 

 my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speak 

 ing. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) 

 was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more 

 pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness 

 in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of 

 his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside 

 from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and 

 had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man 

 had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man 

 that heard him was lest he should make an end. 



(/) Take for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the 

 Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences of the Para 

 doxes. 



(rf) See Preface to vol. i. p. 35. 



(i) No man was, for his own sake, less attached to system 



