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1. 30. compounder, one who makes an analysis, or abstract, of 

 a book. 



1. 33. of all the rest, see note on p. 31, 1. 13. 



1. 34. furthest, ultimate. 



1. 36. upon, out of : by reason of. 



Page 39, 1. 4. profession, means of livelihood. 



1. 4. to give a true account, etc. Cf. The Interpretation of 

 Nature : " The true end, scope, or office of knowledge I have set 

 down to consist not in any plausible, delectable, reverend, or 

 admired discourse, or any satisfactory arguments, but in effecting 

 and working, and in discovery of particulars not revealed before 

 for the better endowment and help of man's life. " 



1. 7. a tarasse, a terrace. 



1. 9. a tower of state, a lofty tower. 



1. 10. commanding, a commanding position is one which gives 

 the holder of it any advantage. 



1. 1 2. the glory of the Creator, because the more we know of nature, 

 the more we admire the power and the wisdom of the Creator. 



1. 13. estate, condition, straitly, closely. It is the same as 

 strictly. Both words are from the Latin strincjere, to draw tight 

 For the implied belief in astrology, see on p. 33, 1. 2. 



1. 23. Atalanta, the daughter of a king of Bceotia, who refused 

 to marry any one who had not beaten her in a foot race. 

 Milanion obtained her by a stratagem. He obtained from Venus 

 some golden apples, which, when he was pressed in the race, he 

 threw down, from time to time, before the maiden. She could 

 not resist the temptation to stop and pick them up, and so lost 

 the race. Similarly, the student who goes aside from the path of 

 knowledge for the sake of lucre will make but slow progress. 



1. 29. to converse upon the earth, i.e., to occupy itself with 

 human affairs. Cf. "Socrates was the first to call down philo 

 sophy from heaven, to place it in cities, to introduce it even into 

 men's homes, and to force it to inquire concerning life and 

 morals, concerning things good and evil." Cic. Tusc. v. 4. 

 See on p. 38, 1. 20. 



1. 31. manners and policy, ethics and politics. 



1.33. both philosophies, i.e., both physics and moral and 

 political philosophy. 



Page 40, 1. 1. a bond- woman, a female slave. 

 1. 5. peccant humours, see on p. 34, 1. 26. 



1. 6. proflcience, progress. The quotation which follows is 

 from Proverbs, xxvii. 6. 



L 15. a laudative, a panegyric. 



