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1. 9. vicissitude of times, change of seasons. 



1. 10. raised, desirous of finding. 



ordinances and decrees, i.e., the laws of nature. A uni 

 formity in nature is called a law because what happens in nature 

 is regarded as happening by the command of God. Thus Words 

 worth, in his Ode to Duty, represents the heavens as being pre 

 served by the performance of their duty. The two senses of the 

 term are brought together in a single sentence below, p. 58, 1. 10. 



1. 17. ill conjunction, imperfect co-operation. 



1. 18. tradition, the word is used, as Bacon generally uses it, 

 in its literal sense of ' delivery,' or ' communication.' 



1. 20. nothing parcel of, i.e., no part of. Parcel is the low 

 Latin word particella, which means a small part. . 



1. 21. lie doth rule over, he decides. 



1. 24. receipt, capacity, or power of receiving. 



1. 27. out-compass itself, exceed its proper limits. 



1. 30. malignity, injurious property. 



1.31. ventosity, windiness. Cf. below, " knowledge bloiveth up. " 



1. 32. corrective spice, an antidote. 



1. 33. sovereign, the word means properly supreme, and so 

 possessed of great power, efficacious. It is often used as an 

 epithet of the word medicine, charity, defined below as the 

 habit of referring everything to the good of men and mankind. 

 1 Corinth, xiii. 1. 



Page 7, 1. 4. referred to, directed towards, as its object. 



1. 5. sounding, literally making a noise and nothing else, i.e., 

 unsubstantial. 



1. 6. meriting, meritorious. 



1. 7. censure, p. 5, 1. 5. 



1. 13. confined and circumscribed, limited and bounded. To 

 confine means to keep within limits ; to circumscribe means to 

 draw a line round anything. 



1.14. coarctation, a Latin word for narrowing, but that it may 

 comprehend, i.e., as would prevent it from comprehending, i.e., 

 including. 



1. 17. as, that. 



1. 19. distaste, the exact equivalent of disgust. 



1. 26. roundeth about, wanders about Ecclesiast. ii. 13, 14. 



1. 27. the same mortality involveth them both, Bacon means to 

 say that we must not become such slaves to any pleasure that the 

 renunciation of it at the time of death will be painful. Any 

 pursuit, however pleasurable, will become painful, if we are con- 



