when it is solid and reduced:1 and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.2 But it is not good to look too long upon these turning wheels of vicissitude, lest we become giddy. As for the philology of them, that is but a circle of tales, and therefore not fit for this writing.4 one, 3 1 Reduce. To subject; to make subject to one; to bring under into or under one's power, within bounds. 2 Exhaust. Exhausted. Bacon 3 Philology. The love or study of learning and literature. uses the word philology in its old sense, the study of literature generally, the relation of literature and literary records to history, etc. The modern sense limits philology to the study of language or linguistics. 4 In connection with this essay, read in the Wisdom of the An cients, Nemesis; or the Vicissitude of Things. Acts, 12, 19, 46, 143, 266 Address to the Deil, xci, 105 Adulatore et amico, De, 44 Advancement, 164 Adventure, 5, 163 ADVERSITY, OF, lxxi, xciv, 22 Advised, 81 Advoutress, 87 Aeneid, 61, 137, 165 Alcoran, 71 Alexander the Great, 83, 88, 134, 166, 198 Alexander, Life of, 166 Alfonso X., 249 All one, 263 Alley, 100 All's Well that Ends Well, 183 Almost, 197 AMBITION, OF, 170 Amos, 252 |