[ [V] The New Atlantis. F. Bacon.
[ [W] Ibid.
[ [X] The great Lexicographer defines the word as 'an inhabitant of the mountains, a savage, a freebooter, a rustick.' Can the word be here used in this sense?
[ [Y] Of the mutilated we have spoken elsewhere. 'A man is mutilated when some part is taken away, and this not any part indifferently, but which, when wholly taken away, cannot again be generated. Hence, men that are bald are not mutilated.'—Metaphysics, Book v. chap. xxvii.
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