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1. 5. conversant in or about, to be. to have to do with ; to be 

 concerned with. 



. 9. curious, careful. 



11. corroborate, which has attained its full strength. Cf. 

 16, 1. 15. 



12. use to have, are accustomed to have. 



13. applications, appliances. 



14. say they, i.e. from which text they infer. 



15. rabbins, theological teachers. The word literally means 

 masters. 



1. 17. howsoever, etc. Wright compares Florio's Montaigne, 

 p. 60, " I have in my youth oftentimes been vexed to see a 

 pedant brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or a 

 sporte-makeiv' For the meaning of 'pedant,' see p. 12, 1. 6. 



1. 26. Jesuits, so called from the ' Society of Jesus ' to which 

 they belong. They are Catholic priests, and the Society was 

 formed in 1534. For an account of their services in the cause of 

 education, see Buckle's History of Civilization, vol. ii. p. 336 ; 

 and Green's History of the English People, vol. ii. p. 262. 



1. 28. The better, etc. Their very cleverness makes them the 

 more mischievous. In the Latin translation, which was intended 

 to be read by scholars in Catholic as well as in Protestant 

 countries, passages like this, depreciatory of the Catholic Church, 

 are omitted. 



1. 30. For Agesilaus, see p. 61, 1. 9. Bacon is referring to 

 Plutarch's Life of Af/esilaus, ch. 12. 



Page 20, 1. 1. temperatures, dispositions. 



1. 3. studies, In the Latin translation Bacon adds, ' Except 

 when it enters into a mind which is much depraved, learning 

 corrects and improves the natural disposition.' Cf. Cardinal 

 Newman's Idea of a University, Discourse viii. 4. 



1. 5. indifferent, impartial. 



1. 7. not inherent, that is to say, not from such manners as are 

 inherent, etc. For to we should say in. 



1. 12. contend, strive. 



L 14. to reduce, etc. , to bring back again. The Latin transla 

 tion has' They strive to inipose upon a dissolute age the moral 

 code of a rigid antiquity.' Cf. " It is no inconsiderable part of 

 wisdom, to know how much of an evil ought to be tolerated, lest 

 by attempting a degree of purity impracticable in degenerate 

 times and manners, instead of cutting off the subsisting ill 

 practices, new corruptions might be produced for the conceal 

 ment and security of tie old." Burke, manners, morals. 

 Cf. 1. 20. 



