Lord Verulam, Instaur. Scient.
Some Men (like Lucian in Religion) seek by their Wit, to traduce and expose useful things; because to arrive at them, they converse with mean Experiments: But those who despise to be employ’d in ordinary and common matters, never arrive to solid Perfection in Experimental Knowledge.
The changes and Alterations in the several Chapters and Parts throughout this Discourse, with the Additions and Improvements, have often oblig’d me to alter the Method, and indeed to make it almost a New Work.
J. Evelyn.
[lxxviii:1] See Petrarch de Remed. utriusque fortunae L. 1. Dial. 57.
[lxxix:1] Vide & Curtium, l. 7. &c.
[lxxx:1] De R. R.
[lxxx:2] In agris erant tunc Senatores. Cic. de Senect.
[lxxx:3] Silvae sunt Consule dignae. See this of the Poet Interpreted, Scaliger l. 2. c. 1. Poet. P. Nennius, Sueton. Jul. in Lipsium. Tacit, iv. Annal. 27. concerning the Quæstor’s Office.