stotle speaketh seriously and wisely,
when he saith, 'Qui respiciunt ad pauca de facili pronunciant."

The editor does not attempt to trace this passage. Query, If it is not in
Aristotle, where is it to be found?

P. 60. "Ulysses, 'Qui vetulam praetulit immortalitati' is a figure of
those which prefer custom and habit before all excellency."

The editor refers to _Cic. de Orat._, i. 44., where it is said that such is
the love of country,

"Ut Ithacam illam, in asperrimis saxulis, tanquam nidulum, affixam,
sapientissimus vir immortalitati anteponeret."

Another application of the saying is made by Bacon in his Essay VIII., "On
Marriage and Single Life:"

"Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly
loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, 'vetulam suam praetulit
immortalitati.'"

The passage in Cicero does not agree with the dictum quoted by Bacon, which
seems to be a reference to the _Odyssey_, v. 136. 208-10.

P. 62. "Claudus in via antevertit cursorem extra viam."

The same proverb is quoted in _Nov. Org._, i. 61.

P. 85. "Omnia mutantur, nil interit"--

from Ovid, _Met._, xv. 165.

Several passages are cited by Bacon from Seneca, which the editor does not
trace. Thus, in p. 146., it is said,--

"Nocet illis eloquentia, quibus non rerum cupiditatem facit, sed sui."

Page 147.,--

"Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei."

The same passage is also quoted by Bacon in Essay V., "On Adversity," and
in the treatise _De Sap. Vet._, vol. x. p. 343., edit. Montagu.

Again, p. 159.:

"De partibus vitae quisque deliberat, de summa nemo."

Page 152.,--

"Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris," &c.,

repeated in part in the "Essay on Death."

This last passage is taken, with considerable verbal variations, from
Epist. 77. Sec. 6.

"Therefore Aristotle, when he thinks to tax Democritus, doth in truth
commend him, where he saith, _If we shall indeed dispute, and not
follow after similitudes_," &c.

The passage referred to is in _Eth. Nic._, vi. 3.; but it contains no
allusion to Democritus, who is not even named in the _Ethics_; and the word
which Bacon renders _dispute_ ([Greek: akribologeisthai]) means _to speak
with precision_.

P. 163. "For as the ancient politiques in popular states were wont to
compare the people to the sea, and the orators to the winds."

The allusion is to a couplet of