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 3 1 Reduce. To subject; to make subject to one; to bring under one, into or under one's power, within bounds. 2 Exhaust. Exhausted. 3 Philology. The love or study of learning and literature. Bacon 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. Accommodate, 14 Actium, 144 Acts, 12, 19, 46, 143, 266 Aculeate, 260 Adamant, 80 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 Aeschines, 135 Aesop, 179, 202, 204, 243 A Cat and Venus, 180 A Cock and a Diamond, 55 Aesopi fabulae Graeco-latinae, Aesopi Phrygis et Aliorum Fa- Aestivation, 209 Affect, 3, 180 Affection, 31 After, 181 Agamemnon, 17 Agesilaus II., 37, 187, 202 Alchemist, The, Alcibiades, 197 172 Alcibiades, Life of, 199 Alcoran, 71 Alexander the Great, 83, 88, 134, 166, 198 Alexander, Life of, 166 Alfonso X., 249 All one, 263 Alley, 100 |