A Finding List: Part I.

Bacon’s Words and Phrases of the English then of the Latin

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W-X-Y-Z

J (English)

Jade To weary. Apparently a new word in Bacon’s time.
For it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we now say, to jade anything too far. (Bacon, Essay: XXXII).

Janus of imagination Has two different faces; for the face towards reason has the print of truth, and the face towards action has the print of goodness; which nevertheless are faces. (Bacon, De Aug).
Another point of view is that Janus being of the Roman gods not identified with Greek gods and being the most important (the doorkeeper or janitor) was worshipped each morning, at the opening of a New Year, and before any important undertaking such as the harvest or a marriage or a war. His head in a medallion is double-faced, for the anniversary looks both backward and forward, and crowned with laurel to suggest the good wishes that go with a New Year’s gift.

Jest A jest is the orator’s altar. 1 He that throws into everything a dash of modest pleasantry keeps his mind the more at liberty. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI. Antitheta, 35).
Consider jests when the laugh is over. (Ibid).
What prevents me from speaking truth with a laughing face? (Bacon, Promus of the Latin, taken from Hor. Sat. I. 24).
It is good to mingle jest with earnest. (Bacon, Essay: Of Discourse).
Humour in conversation preserves freedom. It is highly politic to pass smoothly from jest to earnest and vice versa. (Bacon, Adv., Anthitheta).
A jest is many times the vehicle of a truth which could not otherwise have been brought in. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI).

Jew’s ear A kind of fungus which grows on trees, that swells exceedingly on being put into water, which sponge and wool do not. (Bacon, History of Dense and Rare).

Joy Causeth a cheerfulness and vigour in the eyes, singing, leaping, dancing, and sometimes tears. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).
Sensual impressions of joys are bad; ruminations of joys in the memory, or apprehensions of them in hope or imagination, are good. (Bacon, Hist. Life & Death, 81).

Judgment In all inductions, whether in good or vicious, the same action of the mind which inventeth, judgeth; all one as in the sense; but the invention of means is one thing, and the judgment of the consequence is another: the one exciting only, the other examining. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II.; De Aug., Bk. V).

Julian darkness When the sun on three several occasions, without eclipse or interposition of clouds, the air being clear and serene, appeared for many days with an altered visage; yet not affected in the same manner each time, but once faint, and twice of a reddish brown. For such phenomena happened in the year 790 of seventeen days, and in the times of Justian for half a year, and after the death of Julius Cæsar for several days. (Bacon, Intellectual Globe).
There remains that noble testimony of Virgil: then did the sun in pity dim his light, and drew a dusk veil o’er his visage bright, and shook the impious times with dread of endless night. (George I: 469).

Justice It is owing to Justice that man is a god to man and not a wolf. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI).
Justice, though it cannot extirpate vices, yet prevents them from doing hurt. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI. Antitheta, 22).
If to be just be not to do that to another which you would have another do to you, then is mercy justice. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI. Antitheta, 20).

Juvenes non esse idoneos Moralis Philosophiæ auditores Err; A mistaken quotation from Aristotle’s Eth. Ad Nicom, I. 3., who speaks not of moral but of political philosophy; the same error of the text occurs in Bacon’s Adv and in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Act II. Sc. 2: “Not much unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought unfit to hear moral philosophy.” (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VII). There could have been a misinterpretation toward Socrates’ sayings: “What goodness ensueth of the knowledge of moral philosophy”, when these two quotations were put to print.

J (Latin)

Jam proxime sequente Which is the next piece in this volume. (Bacon).

Jam tum tenditque fovetque He begins to attend and nurse his project while it is yet in the cradle. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Justificata est sapientia a filiis suis Wisdom is justified of her children. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. I).