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1. 18. pedantical, the Latin tr. has 'ignorant of affairs.' 



1. 20. estate, state. 



1. 23. to seek in, deficient in. points of convenience, expe 

 dients, accommodating for the present, arranging matters for 

 the moment. In our own time John Bright has expressed a 

 similar dislike and distrust of the methods of diplomacy. 



1. 25. reasons of state, political considerations. 



1. 27. to recompense, to compensate for. We generally use the 

 word now in the sense of to reward. 



1. 31. use, need. Notice other, used as a plural pronoun. 



1. 32. neither can, etc. This is an additional reason for en 

 trusting the work of government to learned men. 



Page 13, 1. 1. sort with, agree with, resemble. 



1. 2. immediate, present. 



1. 4. hold way with, to equal. For the metaphor, cf. "We are 

 afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private 

 stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man 

 is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail them 

 selves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages. " 

 Burke. 



1. 5. And as for, etc., as for the ways in which it is declared 

 that learning indirectly unfits the mind, etc. The present form of 

 the word seducement is seduction. 



1. 7. To insinuate means properly to introduce indirectly. It is 

 derived from the Latin word sinus, which means a bend. 



1. 9. ministereth, supplies, every, each. For the explanation 

 of this passage, see note on p. 9, 1. 24. 



1. 14. without prejudice, without any harm being done. 



1. 15. regular, adhering strictly to rules. 



1. 16. demonstrative, The terms demonstration and demonstra 

 tive are applied to propositions and reasonings which contain no 

 mixture of hypothesis. 



1. 18. the latitude of principles, the cases to which they are 

 applicable. For instance, a Free Trader may logically concede 

 that countries, which in the face of competition cannot develop 

 their industries, may claim a temporary protection. 



1. 24. quickness and penetration, vividness and force. Cf. the 

 common proverb, " Example is better than precept." The word 

 quickness in Bacon's time signified life : and quick was used 

 where we should now say living. 



1. 25. Clement the Seventh, Pope Clement VII. was contem 

 porary with Henry VIII. of England. Guicciardine says of 

 him "Both in deliberation and in the execution of what he 



