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SIR FRANCIS BACON,

VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS,

THE Prophet of Arts, which Newton was sent afterwards to reveal'. It would be impertinent to the reader to enter into any account of this amazing genius, or his works: both will be universally admired as long as Science exists.As long as ingratitude and adulation are despicable, so long shall we lament the depravity of this great man's heart!-Alas! that He who could command immortal fame, should have stooped to the little ambition of power+!

[Yet Bacon was not merely a vox clamantis in deserto, says Pinkerton, but actually made many experiments to ascertain his own philosophy, to one of which he fell a martyr. Letters of Literature, p. 342.]

[Dr. Johnson has been said to assert, that a dictionary of the English language might be compiled from Bacon's writings alone. See Boswell's Life, vol. ii. p. 583, 2d edit.]

[The following verses addressed "to the lord Bacon, when falling from favour," are too good to be immured in the obscure little volume whence they are now extracted:

"Dazel'd thus with height of place,
While our hopes our wits beguile,
No man markes the narrow space
"Twixt a prison and a smile.

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