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suffered somewhat severely under the reign of Marcus. See 

 Gibbon, ch. 16. 



Page 53, 1. 1. table, picture. The Latin word 'tabula' is used 

 in this sense. Of. tablet, in 1. 3. With painted forth, cf. painted 

 out, p. 13, 1. 27. 



1. 3. volume, size. The word means properly 'any thing rolled 

 up' : hence it signifies properly 'a book,' since books were at first 

 scrolls of parchment, rolled round a stick. 



1. 7. Plutarch, a Greek writer born A. D. 40, wrote biographies 

 in pairs : he selected.some eminent Greek and Roman, gave an 

 account of each, and ended with a comparison of the two. 



1. 9. endued with learning", for the extent of the learning of 

 women in the sixteenth century, see Macaulay's Essay on Bacon. 



1. 12. humanity, secular learning. 



1. 18. the season, the time. 



1. 19. regiment, government, of, we should now say 'on.' 



1. 22. the prerogative, this word describes such powers as the 

 sovereign can exercise without asking the sanction of Parliament. 



1. 23. sortable, suitable. 



1. 24. estate, condition. Bacon" means to say that wealth was 

 equally distributed. 



1. 26. moderation, controlling, quieting. 



1. 29. of herself, by herself, i.e. unmarried. 



1. 36. civil, opposed to military. We still use the word 

 ' civilian' of all who are not soldiers, temperature, cf. p. 20, 1. 1. 



Page 54, 1. 2. enablement, qualifying men for. 



1. 7. note, account, having been, because they have been. 



1. 8. affections towards, their love of and zeal for learning. 



1. 12. attended with, we should say 'by.' Callisthenes was a 

 nephew of Aristotle. He is said to have composed an account 

 of Alexander's exploits. 



1. 17. Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, the poem in which Homer 

 has described the Trojan wa-r. 



1. 19. cabinet, a box used for keeping jewels or other valuables 

 in. 



1. 23. set forth, published his treatise on physics. Cf. Alex 

 ander gained from Aristotle not only moral and political know 

 ledge, but was also instructed in those more secret and profound 

 branches of science, which they call acroamatic and epoptic, and 

 which they did not communicate to every common scholar. For 

 when Alexander was in Asia, and received information that 

 Aristotle had published some books, in which those points were 

 discussed, he wrote him a letter in behalf of philosophy, in which 



