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this is given as an illustration of the remark just made. The 

 dancing of dolls is a type of the things which excite the wonder 

 of the vulgar, but which appear simple enough to those who 

 know the means by which they are effected. 



1. 34. adviseth, informs himself alxmt. The Latin translation 

 explains the meaning : " No one will be much astonished at the 

 play of puppets, who puts his head behind the curtain, and 

 sees the contrivances and the threads by which the puppets 

 are moved." 



Page 62, 1. 3. services, battles. We talk of a soldier "going on 

 service," and "seeing service." for a passage, viz., over a 

 river. 



1. 5. advertised, informed. 



1. 6. went of, told of. We still say' So the story went ' or 

 ' So the story ran. ' 



1. 8. the divineness of souls except, the immortality of the soul 

 can never be regarded as a trilling subject. Except, for exempted: 

 the past participle. 



1. 9. whereas, where. As and that were added probably to 

 give a relative meaning to the originally interrogative adverb 

 where. Abbott, Sh. Gr., 135. 



1. 11. to and fro, used here as a preposition. It is generally 

 used adverbially, signifying 'backwards and forwards. 'Fro' 

 is the same as 'from.' 



1. 13. impediments of virtue, etc., because men do what is 

 wrong or abstain from doing what is right for fear of suffering 

 death or misfortune, manners, character. 



1. 20. Yesterday, Epictetus means that the death of a man is 

 as natural as the breaking of a clay vessel. In the 2nd Essay, 

 Bacon says " The fear of death, as a tribute due unto nature, 

 is weak." Epictetus was a Stoic, born at Hierapolis in Phrygia 

 about 50 A.D. 



1. 21. Virgil, Oeorg. 2. 490. Virgil was perhaps thinking of 

 Lucretius. 



1. 32. the particular remedies, cf. Essay 1., " Nay there is no 

 stond (hindrance) or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought 

 out by fit studies, like as diseases of the body may have appro 

 priate exercises ... every defect of the mind may have a special 

 receipt. " Observe that the diseases of the mind are expressed in 

 terms which properly denote bodily diseases. Learning at one 

 time removes morbid affections of the mind : sometimes remedies 

 defects (see Bk. 2, p. 49) : sometimes enables the mind to digest 

 knowledge : sometimes makes it hungry for more knowledge : 

 sometimes heals the scars that have been left by passion or 



