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  BACON’S ESSAYS

  AND

  WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS

  WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE BY A. SPIERS

  PREFACE BY B. MONTAGU, AND

  NOTES BY DIFFERENT WRITERS

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  BOSTON

  LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

  _Copyright, 1884_,
  BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

  THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.




ADVERTISEMENT.


In preparing the present volume for the press, use has been freely
made of several publications which have recently appeared in England.
The Biographical Notice of the author is taken from an edition of the
Essays, by A. Spiers, Ph. D. To this has been added the Preface to
Pickering’s edition of the Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients, by Basil
Montagu, Esq. Parker’s edition, by Thomas Markby, M. A., has furnished
the arrangement of the Table prefixed to the Essays, and also “the
references to the most important quotations.” The Notes, including the
translations of the Latin, are chiefly copied from Bohn’s edition,
prepared by Joseph Devey, M. A. We have given the modern translation of
the Wisdom of the Ancients contained in Bohn’s edition, in preference
to that “done by Sir Arthur Gorges,” although the last mentioned has a
claim upon regard, as having been made by a contemporary of Lord Bacon,
and published in his lifetime. Its language is in the