Notes and Queries, Number 198, August 13, 1853 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

Mr. Markby has recently published his promised edition of Bacon's Essays ; and he has in this, as in his edition of the Advancement of Learning , successfully traced most of the passages alluded to by Lord Bacon. The following notes relate to a few points which still deserve attention:
Essay II. On Death.—
Many of the thoughts in the Essays recur in the Exempla Antithetorum, in the 6th book De Augmentis Scientiarum . With respect to this Essay, compare the article Vita, No. 12., in vol. viii. p. 360. ed. Montagu.
In the passage of Juvenal, the words are, qui spatium vitæ, and not qui finem vitæ, as quoted by Lord Bacon. Length of life is meant.
Essay III. Of Unity in Religion.—

Essay IV. Of Revenge.—See Antitheta , No. 39. vol. viii. p. 374.
The saying of Cosmo, Duke of Florence, as to not forgiving friends, recurs in the Apophthegms , vol. i. p. 394. ed. Montagu.
Essay V. Of Adversity.—
On the fable of Hercules sailing over the ocean in an earthen pot, see Sap. Vet. , vol. x. p. 335. And concerning the Greek fable, see Schneidewin, Del. Poes. Gr., p. 329.
Essay VI. Of Simulation and Dissimulation.—See Antitheta , No. 32. vol. viii. p. 370.