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mind through words,(/;J well knew the art of con 

 cealment by which he could cast a cloud about 

 him so as to obscure himself from his enemies.(a) 

 To this refined reason which, without proving the 

 authenticity of the paradoxes, shews only that, by 

 possibility, they may be authentic, it is sufficient to 

 say that, as they were not published or intended for 

 publication, it seems difficult to discover any assigna 

 ble cause for this mystery, (y) 



CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE PACIFICATION OF THE 

 CHURCH. 



This was published in 1640, and there are copies 

 in the British Museum, and at Cambridge : and a 

 MSS. in Sloane s Collection, 23. 



THE TRANSLATION OF CERTAIN PSALMS. 



This was published in Bvo. in 1625,(V/) and in 

 the Resuscitatio. (v) 



HOLY WAR. 



This was written and published in 4to in 16*23, 

 and in 1029; and there are MSS. in the British 

 Museum, (c 1 ) 



(6) See Treatise De Augmentis, b. vi. c. 1, 11. 



(a) See the Art of Self-Concealment in the Advancement of 

 Learning, vol. ii. p. 278. See also in the same work, p. 199, 

 upon the art of writing in cyphers. See also under Parabolical 

 Poetry, ibid, p. 121. See ante, Essay on Dissimulation, vol. i. p. 17. 



(y) If this had been his object, would the dove and the ser 

 pent have appeared. T. C. G. 



(d) There is a copy in the Bodleian, (j) Ante iii. and xxx. 



(c) Sloane s, 53. Harleian 3, 267, written in 1622. 



