NOTES ON BACON'S ESSAYS.
As I find that the editor of Bacon's Essays for Bohn's Standard Library has not verified the quotations, I venture to send you a few "N. & Q." on them, which I hope to continue from time to time, if they prove acceptable. In compliance with the recommendation of Mr. Sydney Smirke and the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe (Vol. vi., p. 558.), I append my name and address.
N.B. The paging and notes of Bohn's edition are followed throughout.
Preface, p. xiii. note *. "Speech on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings." See Burke's Works, vol. viii. p. 15. [ed. 1827.] Speech on the first day of reply.
Ditto, p. xv. Letter to Father Fulgentio. See Montagu's Bacon, vol. xi. pref., p. vii.; vol. xii. p. 205.
Ditto, ditto. Spenser's Faery Queene, &c. See preface to Moxon's Spenser (1850), p. xxix., where this story is refuted, and Montagu, xvi., note x.
Ditto, p. xvi. "It was like another man's fair ground," &c. See Montagu, xvi. p. xxvii.
Ditto, ditto. "I shall die," &c. Ditto, xxxiv. and note ww.
Ditto, p. xvii. note †. Dugald Stewart. Supplement to Encycl. Brit., vol. i. p. 54. [ed. 1824.]
Ditto, ditto. Hatton, not Hutton, as in Eliza Cook's Journal, vi. 235.
Ditto, ditto. Love an ignoble passion. Essay x. ad init.
Ditto, p. xviii. "Says Macaulay." Review of B. Montagu's Bacon Essays, p. 355. [ed. 1851.]
Ditto, ditto. A pamphlet. Montagu, vi. 299.
Ditto, p. xix. "A place in the Canticles." Cap. ii. 1. Bacon quotes, from memory it would appear, from the Vulgate, which has "Ego flos campi." By whom is the observation? See, for the story, Montagu, xvi. p. xcviii.
Ditto, ditto. "Books were announced." What?
Ditto, p. xx. "Cæsar's compliment to Cicero." Where recorded?
Ditto, p. xxi. "The manufacture of particular articles of trade." Montagu, xvi. 306.
Ditto, p. xxii. "Says Macaulay." Ut supra, p. 407.
Ditto, ditto. Ben Jonson. See Underwood's, lxix. lxxviii. [pp. 711, 713. ed. Moxon, 1851.]
Ditto, p. xxv. Marcus Lucius. Who is here alluded to?
Ditto, p. xxvii. "Which strangely parodies." The opening alluded to is "Franciscus de Verulam sic cogitavit."
Ditto, p. xxviii. "One solitary line." Where is this to be found?
Ditto, ditto. "Ben Jonson after sketching." See Discoveries, p. 749. ut sup.
Ditto, p. xxix. "Might have censured with Hume." Where?
Ditto, ditto. "Hobbes." Where does he praise Bacon?
Ditto, ditto. "Bayle." In Bayle's Dictionary [English edition, 1710], s. v., we find but fourteen lines on Bacon.
Ditto, ditto. "Tacitus." Vit. Agric., cap. 44.
Ditto, p. xxxiii. note. Solomon's House. See p. 296. seqq. of the vol. of the Standard Library.
Ditto, p. xxxiv. note. Paterculus, i. 17. 6. [Burmann.]
(To be continued.)
P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A.
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