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brance unlucky disappointments, misfortunes, or disgraces. 187 20 equum to merg Talk not of hemp, sayeth the common adage, before the man whose father hath been. hanged; and we shall ever see, that a man will sooner pardon and forget a violent open attack, than the levelling of the insidous shafts of malignant ridicule. It is base and cowardly to draw the sword against the defenceless foe; and how much more so to jeer inhumanly with a plain honest friend, who is unprovided with the artillery of wit and humour in colloquial intercourse.

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The only excusation of frequent and terse wit and humour, that cuts as well as thrusts, is when a man is often and vehemently attacked by witlings, so that then he may stand a fair tryal of his politeness, and be brought in by a rigid jury on a se defendendo; or as when in glee he may dart forth sayings that may hit without being levelled, and so he may have verdict, (as it were,) of man slaughter withou malice.yu ban deca di go plod Another especial canon in the regiment of politeness is, that we should honour our humbler friends when we meet them among the great, and not treat them like cyphers, that depend upon their situation in the grand summa totalis.

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The neglect of this genuine offspring of a worthy heart and a sound understanding, hath cost many a man a worthy neighbour and friend, not to be compensated by the

braggard importance of a meeting of the quorum, or the triumphs of vain ostentation. It is good also for a man to guard his place with decent apparrel, and not to degrade himself by mean appearances ***

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DOE sweetly remember when I was at Gorhambury with my father, my ever to be honoured father, I being then a student at Cambridge, did greatly wonder at the changes he had wrought in my absence, both upon his mansion, and upon his orchyard and garden. sa tu none is

-As we were one lovely evening reposing ourselves in the little banqueting house in the orchyard *, which was just then finished

It will be curious and interesting to many of the readers of these fragments of Bacon, to set down, in this place, the list of worthies placed by Sir Nicholas Bacon, in his banqueting house in the orchard, as it will serve to show, without any argument, the astonishing progress of

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science since the year 1578, when this conference took place, a few months before the death of the lord keeper." 19 Grammar.

Donatus, Lilly, Servius, Priscian.

Arithmetická

Pythagoras, Stifelius, Budæus. Ruma

Logick.

Aristotle, Rodolphus, Porphiry, Seton!

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Arion! Terpander! Orpheus!!!
The list in Rhetorick as good as ever.
Cicero, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Quintillian.

Geometry.

Archimedes, Euclid, Apollonius."
Astronomy.

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Regiomontanus, Hally! Copernicus, Ptolomy! Be pleased now, my dear readers, to take your pens, and set down a few names as they may occur to you: Ramus, Verulam, Gassendi, Descartes, Leibnitz, Harris, Lowth, &c. Napier, Briggs, &c. Leibnitz, Harris, en

core et encore.

Palestrina, Carolo, Gosualdo, Arctino, Corelli, Handel, Geminiani, &c. &e, Gregory, Wolffe,Simson, Newton, &c. Newton, encore et encore. Halley, Cassini, d'Alembert, Bernoulli, de la Lande, de la Grange, &c. ends core et encore; and then judge for yourselves how much we owe to the great lord Verulam for his sketches, for his

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ceedingly descant upon the beauties of his innovations; yet not without some expressions that indicated the great charges that I thought must needs have accompanied these undertakings.

Whereupon my father, with a smile of amiable complacency, and strict intelligence of my thoughts, did thus with great condescension apply himself to the train of my reflexions.

My son, (said he,) verily it giveth me no small contentment to see, that in the midst of admiration, and kind fellowship, in my delectations, you do show forth the rudiments and seeds of the fair blossom of prudence and economy, which I pray God to ripen into the goodly fruit of well ordered expence ; a virtue which standeth high on the tree of the knowledge of good, and of evil.

Engaged as I have long been in a function of great fatigue and anxiety of mind, it was necessary that I should seek for recreations that should renew the vigour of my mind, and fit me for continuing the performance of mine arduous duties.

opening men's eyes, and teaching them to think for themselves.

It was the glory of lord Bacon, to lay a foundation for banishing the breviary of the cloyster, and introducing the breviary of reason and common sense.

"Wave your toupees, ye little paltry criticks, in sign of worship wave."

In none could I find such sweet and healthful variety as in these you now behold, which I take to be the purest of humane pleasures, as they were indeed the first that were devised and recommended unto man by his hea venly Maker.

God Almighty first planted a garden, and he hath planted in the mind of man an extraordinary delight in the operations of agriculture, and in beholding the growth and progress of the vegetable kingdom.

It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which, even palaces are but gross handy works; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegance, they lose the chaste fruition of the simple delights that hide themselves in the country and betake themselves to the pomp of buildings, and the glare and noise of cities, to the great deperition, and ruin of all the finer affections of the soul, that is not depraved by artificial and unnatural delectations.

Now, if a man relish not the turbulent pleasures of a city, during the seasons of recess from business, he must betake himself to the recreations of the country.

But if he fall into the rude sports, and crapulous excesses of esquires, which ever succeed to the violent exertions of hawking and hunting, his last estate will be worse than the former.

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