Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853

NOTES

LORD BACON'S "ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING."

ERECTION OF FORTRESS AT MICHNEE AND PYLOS

HOVEDEN'S ANNALS—BOHN'S "ANTIQUARIAN LIBRARY."

FOLK LORE

SHAKSPEARE READINGS, NO. VII

Minor Notes

Queries

BEES AND THE SPHYNX ATROPOS

"THE CRAFTSMAN'S APOLOGY."

PALISSY AND CARDINAL WISEMAN

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

ENGLISH COMEDIANS IN GERMANY

A GENTLEMAN EXECUTED FOR WHIPPING A SLAVE TO DEATH

LONGEVITY

DERIVATION OF CANADA

SETANTIORUM PORTUS

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

FENNELL'S SHAKSPEARE REPOSITORY,

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,

NEW WORKS

ADDEY & CO., 21. OLD BOND STREET

AUSTRALIA VISITED AND REVISITED:

THE DIARY AND HOURES OF THE LADYE ADOLIE,

A CHILDREN'S SUMMER

GRIMM'S HOUSEHOLD STORIES

THE CHARM:

THE PICTURE PLEASURE BOOK;

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Considering the large number of quotations from previous writers which occur in Lord Bacon's works, and especially in his most popular and generally read works—his Essays and his Advancement of Learning—it is remarkable how little his editors have done for the illustration of his text in this respect. The French editors of Montaigne's Essays, who is likewise a writer abounding in quotations, have bestowed much care on this portion of their author's text. The defect in question has, however, been to a great extent supplied in a recent edition of the Advancement of Learning, published by Mr. Parker in West Strand; and it is to be hoped that the beginning, so usefully made, may be followed up by similar editions of other of Bacon's works.

The edition in question, though it traces the great majority of Bacon's quotations, has left some gleanings to its successors; and I propose now to call attention to a few passages of the Advancement of Learning which, after the labours of the late editor, seem still to require further elucidation. My references are to the pages of the new edition:—

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Page 152.,—

repeated in part in the "Essay on Death."

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