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1. 23. I have no meaning, I do not intend. 



1. 24. animadversion, consideration. It is a Latin word signi 

 fying literally ' a turning of the mind towards ' a thing. 



1. 26. unto, concerning. 



1. 29. traduced, calumniated. Cf. p. 19, 1. 2. 



1. 33. curious, subtle. The Latin translation adds ' In things 

 which are of little use.' curiosity is either in matter or words, 

 the Latin translation adds by way of explanation ' that is to 

 say, when men labour at unimportant subjects or devote too 

 much attention to purity of style.' 



1. 34. in reason, as we should have expected a priori. Credulity 

 produces false or fantastical philosophy. Frivolity, in the sense 

 of 'curiosity in matter,' i.e. subtlety in trifles, produces con 

 tentious philosophy. Frivolity, in the sense of ' curiosity in 

 words,' i.e. undue attention to verbal purity, leads to affectation. 



1. 35. distempers, diseases. 



Page 26, 1. 1. fantastical, fanciful. 



1. 2. delicate, affected. 



1. 4. Martin Luther, In the Latin translation the words which 

 would offend the Catholics are omitted, and Bacon merely says 

 that ' though this extravagance of luxuriant speech has been 

 admired at intervals in the past, yet it grew to an extraordinary 

 pitch about the time of Luther.' He attributes this to the 

 desire to attract the vulgar by sermons and to a hatred of the 

 scholastic style. 



1. 5. in discourse of reason, by the exercise of his reason. 

 Shakespeare uses the phrase to denote the reasoning faculty. 

 Hamlet, i. 2, 150. 



a province, a task. It is probable that the Latin word 

 ' provincia ' meant ' a public duty, ' before it acquired the more 

 special meaning of ' a district. ' 



1. 9. to awake all antiquity, i.e. to call attention to the 

 opinions of the ancients, succours, we should now use the 

 singular. 



1. 13. revolved, considered. 



1. 14. exquisite, careful. For travail, see note on p. 9, 1. 29. 



1. 21. the Schoolmen, the philosophers of the middle ages. 

 The Scholastic philosophy lasted, roughly speaking, from the 

 ninth to the fifteenth century. The name was taken originally 

 from the teachers in the schools established by Charlemagne. 



1. 22. part, party. The Schoolmen were all ecclesiastics, and, 

 of course, members of the Catholic Church. 



1. 24. to coin and frame new terms, we are indebted to the 



