Lord Bacon's Essays, or counsels moral and civil

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the orld, without his Pari, may be thought notunt ille the Statue o Polyphemus illi his ye out that Par of the Image ein Nant-ing, hichioth mos represent themature an Spirit of the Person Aia though esset down his as deficient, yet e remo ignorant, that in divers particular Sciences, as of the Iurisconsulis, the Mathematicians, the Rhetoricians, the Philosophers, there are et down ome light Memoria is, o certain jejune elations of the Sedis Schools, Books. Authors, and Succession ossuch like Sciences: That there are likewis extant sonae thin bar

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re Treatis es ouching the Inventor o Thingsan Aris ut for a Iust and Universal Histor of earn in g, we asser that non hi-therio ath been publimV. Wheresere emit propo uia both the Argument, and the Manne of Contriving, and the se thereos. THE Argument is tro other han a Recita froin ali Times, of what rino inledges an Aris have flouristi'd in an Ages and Climates of the orid. Let there e made a Rehearsalis thei Antiquities, their Ad vances also of thei Progresses through diversParis of the world for Sciences stris and remove nocles than People. lagain, of their Deciensions Oblivions, Instaurations I et there likeruisse e Observations made througheVer particula Art, of the Occalion and Original of thei Invention , of thei Manne os

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ry that the Causest couplexwith the venis that is that thematures of Countries and Peoplete recorded , and the Dispositions api and able, or napi and unable se diversDisciplines , he Accident of Times adverse, o propitious to Sciences the eal and Mixtures of Religion the Discountenances, and Favours of Larus , and lastly the eminent Viriues, and Way o certain Persons, for the Promotingis Learning and the like.

an Censure, after the Manner of the Critichs , ut that the Thingsae baret related in a Manne perfecti Historical, and uro Nn Judgmen sparingi interpolad. A to the Manner o Compiling such a History, e do speciali admonis thus

within hos Spaces of Time, e consul ted withri, to the end that, o frona a through Perusal of them, for that e re an endless Vork but romis ast an Observationis the Argument, Stile, and Method, the earn

e Genius of that Time, as by a in os Charin, may be callu up isto in the Dead.

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io this Eny , Not that the Honour, and Pompos Learning may be celebrated by se any Images ver Way surroundiniher nor that, for the ardent Affection e bear o Learning, we destre, even to Curiosiity, to enquire, and hnoin, and preserve hais everrio the State of Learning may an ina appertain 'ut chiestysor a more serious and grave Purposse. It is in se Word this : For that by means offuch a Relationis e have described, w COn-Ceive a very great Addition may be made to

the is doni an Shillis Learne Men in

the Us and Managingi Learning , and that the otions and Perturbations and the Vices an Virtu es, of Intellectuat atters as ellas Civit, a be notes , and the best Regimen froni thence drawn and practis'd. For e do

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D Augmenti Scientiarum. lo Lib. 2. Calui3. H Dignit an Authorit ofCivit istor is eminent among Human writings. For po tho Credit of this, the Examples fou Ancestors, the Vici istudes of Asfairs, the round of Civit Pruden ce anilla stly the Naine and amet Me depend. But the Dissiculi is a great a the Digni ty. Foro dra bac the Mind in rit in to Things past, an to mali itias it Nere aged to earch out illi Dilige nce'; to relate illi Fidelit an dareedom , finalty to representio the Eye withraeaut anil Clearnes of EX- pression the Changes of Times, the Chaiaracter of Persons, the avering of Coun- seis, the turn and indings of Actions, aso Gaters, the inire Subi leties audie pilis

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of Prete iaces, and the Secret of GOVern ment,

fore the Error also re many hic attendi his sanae Civit Histor ; hiis the greatest

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Commentar to the bello Histor; in themorid. But egister areis a truo sold Nature sorthe comprehend ei ther the Tities of atterand Persens, in a Continuation o Time , fuchas in can Calendar and Chronologi SQ, O the Solemni aes ot Acts a the dicis o Princes, the Decrees of Counctis Iudicia Proceed ings, Publici Orations Letters of State, and thelike, Without a Conte X ture, o continued 1 hread os Narration. Ab TIQUITIES, O Remnant of Μ - , re a Nas a id tangitavi tabuia naufragii , he the scat ter 'dilan k of ara hi prurech;when the Memory of Things Liling, and bein galmos drowned, ne vertheles industrisus audsagaci ou Men, by an obstria a te and scrupulous Dilige iace, an Observation, ut os Geneat Ogies,

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Coins, Proper ames and Styies, tymologies of Word 8 Proverbs Vraditions Archives, and Record as et public a private Fragments of Stori es, scat tered Passiges of Loo qnoth in Historical , ut os ali these, I say, orso me of them, o rescire an sive ova exultat frona the De luge of Time.

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lici and private are necessarii compo undedan mix' together , do certaini exhibit more lively, and Dithsul Narrations of Things, and whichia an a more asely an hap-pit transfer into Example. M again speciat Relations of Actions asib mar in Peloponnesus, thes Expedition fCyrus, the Conspira Catiline , and thelthe cannot buti more purei and exactlytrue, than fistini sortes of Times ; ecau in them a be hos en an Argument that is manageabie, and limites and of such a Q aali ty that exach nowledge, and Certa in ty, and sui Informatio ma be ad thereos; whereas ora the ther side, the Histor os a Timo such speciali as is much antienter than therage of the writer must need in the Memor os atters fati man Times, an contain lan Spaces; hicli e must