188: 26. Of long. From times long past. 188:28. "Judicis," etc. 'It is a judge's duty [to consider] not only facts, but circumstances.' 1891. to remember mercy. Compare Psalms ci. 1; Micah vi. 8; Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book V, Canto 10, Stanzas 1 and 2; Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Sc. 1:— "The quality of mercy is not strained," etc. 1897. "well-tuned cymbal." Compare Psalms cl. 5. 1898. first to find. To anticipate by his own utterance. 189:9. conceit. Wit; perception. 189:11. prevent. In the original meaning of 'anticipate.' 189: 14. impertinency. Irrelevancy. 189: 18. glory. Vain-glory; vanity. willingness. ness. 189 19. to hear. In hearing. Eager 189:23. "represseth," etc. See James iv. 6; 1 Peter v. 5. 189: 26. favourites. Referring to legal advocates. 190 1. obtaineth not. Does not win. 190 2. conceit. : the client. Good opinion. All three pronouns refer to 1904. civil. Temperate; used almost in the modern sense. 190:21. catching and polling. Avaricious and thievish. See note on page 182, line 1. Compare also page 191, line 4. 190:27. amici curiæ. 'Friends of the court. ' parasiti curiæ. Parasites of the court.' 190:28. puffing a court up. Probably a reference to Coke, Bacon's great rival, who more than once pressed the question of jurisdiction. 191: 4. poller. Stripper. The word poll' meant originally 'to shear the hair from the head or poll.' See page 190, line 21. 1919. understanding. Versed. 191 15. twelve tables. 451-450. A short digest of Roman law, B.C. 6 "Salus," etc. The welfare of the people is the first law.' Found, however, in Cicero's De Legibus, III, 3, 8. 192: 12. the Apostle. St. Paul. See 1 Tim. i. 8. 192:13. "Nos scimus," etc. We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.' (Revised Version.) LVII. OF ANGER (1625) Bacon was not much given to anger-he schooled himself too prudently for that but he seems to have had full experience of it in others, as Elizabeth, James, Buckingham, Coke. He refers here to personal anger only, excited by personal wrongs. The last paragraph expresses the worldly wisdom of a man who had had occasion for testing his own precepts. The student should read the letter of complaint sent by Bacon to Cecil, April 29, 1601, concerning "the abuse I received of Mr. Attorney-General, publicly in the Exchequer, the first day of term." 192:15. bravery. Vain whim or effort. 192: 16. Stoics. See note on page 6, line 4. oracles. See Eph. iv. 26. 192: 18. race. Course. 192:20. attempered. Controlled. 193:3. Seneca. See note on page 5, line 16. In the De Ira, I, 1. ruin. Literally, a falling. 193: 5. Scripture. See Luke xxi. 19. 193:8. "Animasque," etc. 'And spend their lives in [giving] a wound.' From Vergil's Georgics, IV, 238. 193:24. construction. Interpretation. 193:29. circumstances of contempt. Compare Malvolio's anger against Maria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act II, Sc. 3:"Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at anything more than contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule; she shall know of it, by this hand." 194: 1. the touch. The tainting. 194:3. Consalvo. Gonzalo, Hernandez de Cordova, 14531515. He brought about the capture of Granada, and drove the French from Naples. 194:4. "telam," etc. 6 Honour of a stronger web.' 194: 10. contain. Keep. 194: 13. aculeate. Pointed; provoking. 194: 14. proper. Stingingly fit. communia maledicta. 'Common insults.' 194:28. sever. Keep him from imputing the injury to the motive of contempt. LVIII. OF VICISSITUDE OF THINGS (1625) 1951. Solomon. See Eccl. i. 9. 1952. Plato. See note on page 55, line 20. Plato held hat the mind retains ideas carried over from a previous exist 1955. Lethe. A river of Hades, the waters of which produced in the person drinking them insensibility to the past. 195:11. motion. The movement of the heavens around the earth. Bacon was not a Copernican, as the Essays frequently testify. 195: 13. the matter. Matter, simply. a perpetual flux. Compare the philosophy of Heraclitus (see note on page 95, line 7), who held that all things are in a constant flux of becoming and passing away, that fire is the world-ground, and that all these changes tend to the establishment of a vast harmony. Compare also the modern atomic theory of the physicist. 195:14. stay. Standstill. 195:17. merely. Utterly; completely. 195: 18. Phaeton's car. Phaeton, or Phaethon, was a son of Helios-the sun god-and Prote, and was given permission by his father to drive the chariot of the Sun for one day. The result was about to prove disastrous for heaven and earth, when Jupiter hurled a thunderbolt at Phaeton and destroyed him. 195:19. Elias. See 1 Kings xvii. 18. 195:20. particular. Partial. 195: 27. oblivion, etc. The result is, that oblivion of the past is just as complete as if there had been no survivors. 196:6. the Egyptian priest. A reference to the story in Plato's Timæus. Solon. See note on page 102, line 25. 196:7. Atlantis. A mythical island referred to by Plato and others, supposed to have been situated off the coast of north. west Africa, and to have disappeared in a cataclysm. 196:16. Machiavel. See note on page 18, line 24. 196:18. Gregory the Great. Born 540, became pope 590, died 604. He is said, on doubtful authority, to have attacked and sought to destroy the monuments of antiquity. 196:22. Sabinian. Gregory's successor, 604. 196:24. superior globe. Starry heavens. 196:25. Plato's great year. The period mentioned by Plato in the Timæus as accomplished when all the stars and planets, having completed their orbits, return to their original starting. points. 196:27. like. The same as those whose lives in the last Great Year individually correspond with those of their successors. fume. Unfounded opinion; whim. Compare Browning's An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician, lines 102-106: "Such cases are diurnal,' thou wilt cry. Not so this figment!-not, that such a fume, As saffron tingeth flesh, blood, bones and all! 196: 29. accurate. Nice; exact. 1976. version. Direction. 1978. toy. Trifle. 1979. given over. Despised; ignored. Considered. 197: 12. suit. Succession. waited upon. 197:21. orbs. Motives. A metaphor from Bacon's astronomy. 197:22. "built," etc. See Matt. xvi. 18. 1981. doubt. Fear. Note several uses of the word in Hamlet's love-letter' to Ophelia : "Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love." 198:4. Mahomet. See note on page 10, line 27. 1987. authority. below. Civil government. Compare line 12 198:11. Arians. Arius was excommunicated as a heretic at Alexandria in 321, and his views were condemned by the Coun |