110: 19. merely. Entirely. a. ovl 111: 5. personal. Given to single individuals for acts of unusual heroism. style. Appellation; title. 111:7. triumphs. Processions through Rome to the Temple of Jupiter, in honour of successful generals. 111: 12. gaudery. Boastful display. 111:19. impropriate. Appropriate. 111:22. ensigns. Decorations. 111:25. Scripture. See Matt. vi. 27. 111: 26. model. A miniature of "the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths." XXX. OF REGIMENT OF HEALTH (1597. A paragraph added, 1612. Enlarged, 1625) "Regiment" is here used in the sense of 'regimen,' -control, systematic management. Compare Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen, Act IV, Sc. 3: "This may bring her to eat, to sleep, and reduce what's now out of square with her into their former law and regiment." 112:13. still. Always. 112: 14. age will not be defied. Compare O. W. Holmes's The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: "What is the use of fighting against the seasons, or the tides, or the movements of the planetary bodies, or this ebb in the wave of life that flows through us? We are old fellows from the moment the fire begins to go out. Let us always behave like gentlemen when we are introduced to new acquaintances. We have settled when old age begins. Like all Nature's processes, it is gentle and gradual in its approaches, strewed with illusions, and all its little griefs are soothed by natural sedatives. But the iron hand is not less irresistible because it wears the velvet glove." ... 112: 18. than one. The meaning is, that if a change is decided upon it should be a change affecting several interests at once rather than one only. 112:24. particularly. In your own case. 113:3. envy, etc. This dispassionate advice is another testimony to Bacon's equable temperament. 113 18. accident. : Symptom. Bacon's own bodily consti tution was not strong, and he watched himself perhaps overclosely in the particulars named. 113: 19. respect. Consider. 113:20. action. Exercise. put. Require; constrain. 113: 22. tendering. Careful attention; nursing. 113:23. Celsus. Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a physician in the tìme of Tiberius, who wrote exhaustively of oratory, farming, jurisprudence, medicine, military art, and philosophy. eight books on medicine are alone extant. 114: 1. masteries. Control of the physical functions. 114:2. pleasing. Willing to please; indulgent. The 114: 5. according to art, etc. Compare Essay XXVII, page 96, line 27, page 97, line 2. Compare also Chaucer's doctor in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "The cause y-knowe, and of his harm the rote, Anon he yaf the seke man his bote." XXXI. OF SUSPICION (1625) 114:18. guarded. Controlled. 114: 15. check. Interfere. 114:16. currently. Like a current; smoothly. 114: 19. heart. Courage. 114:20. stoutest. Bravest. 114:22. composition. Temperament. 115: 4. What would men have? etc. A significant recognition by the prudential Bacon, at the end of his career, of the less pleasing realities of human character. The touch of bitter ness is not, however, representative. 115:14. buzzes. Passing murmurs. 115 19. he. : The antecedent is to be understood. 115: 22. would. Should. 115:25. " Sospetto licentia fede." 'Suspicion gives license to faith,' that is, releases men from the obligation to be sincere and honourable. XXXII. OF DISCOURSE (1597. Enlarged, 1612; again, 1625) 116:4. what might be said. Compare Addison's paper (No. 122) in The Spectator: " My friend Sir Roger heard them both, upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides." 116:6. commonplaces and themes. Stock subjects of dis 116:11. leads the dance. Gracefully guides the conversation. 116: 13. intermingle, etc. Relieve the discussion of local topics with more important intellectual matters. 116:16. jade. Overwork. 116: 18. privileged. Exempted by common consent. 116:21. any case that deserveth pity. Bacon's contemporaries were less sensitive in this respect than men of to-day. The race has grown -though slowly-in sympathy and its expressions. We do not find misfortune funny as often as did the Elizabethans. 116:24. would. Ought to. 116:25. "Parce," etc. harder at the reins.' 116:27. saltness. 'Spare the whip, boy, and pul From Ovid's Metamorphoses, II, 127. Wit. 117: 4. content. Give pleasure. 117: 5. skill. The peculiar knowledge or specialty. Rawley says of Bacon that "he would draw a man on and allow him to speak upon such a subject, as wherein he was peculiarly skilful and would delight to speak.” 117:9. poser. Formal examiner ; question-putter. 117:14. galliards. A French dance of vigorous measure, for two persons. Compare Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act I, Sc. 3: "Sir Toby. What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? 117 15. dissemble, etc. : 'If you sometimes pretend not to know what you really do know, this practice will turn out to your advantage, for your ignorance in other instances will appear to be similar modesty.' A rather frank expression of worldly wisdom. 117: 18. of. Concerning. 117:25. touch. Personal import. 118:2. dry blow. A jest based on a personality. 118: 6. agreeably. Suitably; acceptably. 118:8. A good continued speech, etc. The meaning is, 'Ability to speak at length, if unsupported by good conversational ability, has the advantage of rapidity, like the greyhound, but the disadvantage of slowness "in the turn"; while quickness of rejoinder in conversation, unaccompanied by power to elaborate an idea, though showing the nimbleness of the running hare, exhibits also the hare's weakness.' 118: 14. circumstances. Considerations. XXXIII. OF PLANTATIONS 118 17. Plantations. (1625) Colonies. 119: 4. profit. Bacon's imperialism is of a patriotic, not a commercial, type. He anticipates here precisely the lowness and weakness of that 'Tory' point of view which lost for Georgian England her American colonies. 119 13. certify. Write accounts. Compare the early history of the Virginia colony. 119: 20. of itself. That is, indigenously. 119:26. maize. The English term for corn. 1209. certain. Definite; fixed. 120 14. manure. Cultivate. 120 15. his own private. Himself. 120:21. Virginia. Settled at Jamestown, 1608. 120:22. one. That is, of the commodities mentioned above. 120 24. brave. : Fine; excellent. 120:26. would. Should. Growing silk. Vegetable silk. 121:1. moil. Toil; work. Compare 'turmoil.' 121: 12. undertakers. Contractors. 121 16. freedoms from custom. Exemptions from the payment of duties on exports or imports. * 121:19. make their best of them. Sell them to most advantage. 121:22. how they waste. How they dwindle in population. 121:25. surcharge. Overplus of population. 121:28. marish. Marshy. 121:30. still. Always. 1226. gingles. Jingles; rattles. 122 10. it is not amiss. That is, to offer and provide assistance against their enemies when friendly savages are attacked. |