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is sometimes bold in the presence of others, where cowardice 

 would bring disgrace : so the industry of some men is to be 

 attributed either to the desire of applause, or a regard for their 

 own interests, designments, designs. Their industry is assumed 

 for a purpose. 



1. 17. according to. agreeable to : in harmony with. 



1. 19. in the purchase, in the advantage which they derive 

 from it. 



1. 21. which can hold their mind, which seems to them worthy 

 of attention. 



1. 25. spirit, mind. There is no doubt that the retired life 

 and mental habits of a student do tend to unfit him for active 

 life. The concentration of his interests upon study makes him 

 impatient of the necessary drudgery of business ; and his mode 

 of life makes him deficient in 'knowledge of the world.' More 

 over, being accustomed never to come to a decision without com 

 plete evidence, he is unfitted to act in those frequent emergencies 

 when either the requisite data for decision are not attainable, or 

 when there is no time to weigh them. 



1. 27. Some men, etc. . Men of a shy and nervous temperament, 

 when they have to appear in public or take part in public affairs, 

 are as perplexed and embarrassed as a man brought suddenly out 

 of darkness into the light of the sun. 



1. 32. that, as for the objection that. 

 1. 35. expecteth, is waiting for. 



the tides and returns of business, i.e., busy times. 

 Business ebbs and flows : and in times when there is little or no 

 business, the statesman can study. Bacon's picture is drawn 

 from the ministers of Queen Elizabeth, who were all men of 

 letters, and who "were the first generation of statesmen by 

 profession that England produced." See Macaulay's Essay on 

 Bacon. 



1. 36. tedious, dilatory. We generally use the word in the 

 sense of tiresome. 



Page 15, 1. 6. his orations did smell of the lamp, i.e. they were 

 the fruit of much care and study. The point of Demosthenes' 

 reply is that he spent the night in study, ^schines in de 

 bauchery. ^Eschines, the Athenian orator, born B.C. 389, was 

 the great rival of Demosthenes. While Demosthenes advocated 

 a policy of opposition to Philip of Macedon, ^Eschines was the 

 head of the peace party. When Ctesiphon proposed that a 

 golden crown should be given to Demosthenes for his services to 

 his country, ,/Eschines indicted him for bringing forward an 

 illegal proposition. Demosthenes replied, and ^Eschines was 

 defeated. As a penalty for bringing forward an unfounded 



