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1. 28. it was noted for an error, etc. In the eleventh Essay, 

 Bacon gives the following piece of advice to men in great place 

 " Preserve the rights of inferior places : and think it more honour 

 to direct in chief than to be busy in all." to comprehend, to take 

 into his own hands. 



1. 32. Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. 



over-rule and put down, to contradict and silence : to 

 prove him to be in the wrong. Cf. The Interpretation of Mature. 

 " Sir (saith a man of art to Philip, king of Macedon, when he 

 controlled him in his faculty), God forbid your fortune should be 

 such as to know these things better than I. In taxing his ignorance 

 in his art he represented to him the perpetual greatness of his 

 fortune, leaving him no vacant time for so mean a skill." For 

 the expression would needs, cf. p. 24, 1. 6. 



Page 51, 1.1. an inducement to, a means of furthering. 



1. 4. matched with ApoUonius, placed side by side with that of 

 Apollonius. Apollonius of Tyana in Cappadocia, who lived in 

 the first century A.D., was a diviner and a reputed worker of 

 miracles. It is said that it was not Hadrian, but Alexander 

 Severus, who matched the picture of Christ with that of 

 Apollonius, and who actually built a temple in honour of Christ. 

 Hadrian, however, had a feeling of respect both for Christ and 

 for Apollonius. E. 



1. 6. it served, the construction is irregular. * It ' means the 

 admiration of the Emperor for Christ. 



1. 8. civil, opposed to ecclesiastical. 



1. 10. weal, welfare. 



1. 19. re-edifying, used in its literal sense of 're-building.' 

 The verb 'to edify' now means 'to instruct,' or 'to improve a 

 man's character.' 



1. 21. passages, roads, policying, regulating. 



1. 22. commonalties, corporations. 



1. 23. granting new franchises and incorporations, investing 

 new cities with municipal independence. 



1. 27. subtle wit of a schoolman, see p. 29. 



1. 29. untaxed, uncensured. Cymini sector, cf. Essay 1. "If 

 his wit be not apt to distinguish, or find differences, let him study 

 the Schoolmen : for they are cymini sectores." We now talk of 

 ' hair-splitting.' 



1. 31. settled spirit, determination. 



1. 33. which ... entire, observe the irregular construction. The 

 subject properly is mind, but the sentence beginning ' but having' 

 is applicable only to Antoninus. 



1. 36. all, for any : a Latinism. 



