A Finding List: Part I.

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

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Salic law And thereupon he took a fit occasion to send the Lord Treasurer and Master Bray, whom he used as Counselor, to the Lord Mayor of London, requiring of the city a present of six thousand marks; but after parleys, he could obtain but two thousand pounds. (Bacon, History of Henry VII.).
The Archbishop further alleged out of the book of Numbers this saying: “When a man dieth without a son, let the inheritance descend to his daughter. (Holinshed).
And yet wish I not any of you to be so unadvised as to be the occasion that I dye your tawny ground with your red blood. (Ibid).

Salomon’s House The erection and institution of an order or society, which we call Salomon’s House, the noblest foundation, as we think, that ever was upon the earth, and the lanthorn [lantern] of this Kingdom. It is dedicated to the study of the works and creatures of God. Some thing it beareth the founder’s name a little corrupted, as if it should be Salomona’s House; but the records write it as it is spoken. I find in ancient records this order or society is sometimes called Salomon’s House, and sometimes the College of the Six Days. God had created the world, and all that therein is, within six days. (Bacon, New Atlantis, 1623). [Also see Part III: New Atlantis]

Santali citrini Yellow sandalwood. (Bacon, Vitæ et Mortis).

Saxon lettering One way of writing the Saxon th, in Bacon’s time, was by a peculiar kind of d. The other character for th was more like the letter y, and was not generally known that in the common contraction ye, the, the y was merely a corruption of the Saxon th.

Scholars When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it, and they bend their wits accordingly. Of this we see the familiar example in lawyers and scholars, who if they have once admitted a doubt, it goeth ever afterwards authorised for a doubt. But that use of wit and knowledge is to be allowed, which laboureth to make doubtful things certain, and not those which labour to make certain things doubtful. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VII).

Schoolmen In the Adv., and De Aug., the schoolmen in particular are compared to the spider; a passage which has been misunderstood by a distinguished writer, whose judgments seem not infrequently to be as hastily formed as they are fluently expressed, and who conceives that Bacon intended to condemn the study of psychology.

Sciences Bacon paid great attention to astronomy, discussed carefully the methods in which it ought to be studied, constructed for the satisfaction of his own mind and elaborate theory of the heavens, and listened eagerly for the news from the stars brought by Galileo’s telescope, he appears to have been utterly ignorant of the discoveries which had just been made by Kepler’s calculations. He does not say a word about Napier’s Logarithms; he complained that no considerable advance had been made in Geometry beyond Euclid, without taking any notice of what had been done by Archimedes and Apollonius; he speaks of the Eureka [εύρηκα] of Archimedes in a manner, which implies that he did not clearly apprehend either the nature of the problem to be solved or the principles upon which the solution depended; in reviewing the progress of mechanics, he makes no mention either of Archimedes himself, or of Stevinus, Galileo, Guldinus, or Ghetaldus; he makes no allusion to the theory of Equilibrium. (Spedding).

Scorners When a man informs a scorner, the scorner himself despises the knowledge he has received. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VIII).
Scornful men scorn with gibes and jests, men of real wisdom, and experience, of great minds, and deep judgment. In short, they weaken all the foundations of civil government; a thing the more to be attended to, because the mischief is wrought, not openly, but by secret engines and intrigues; and the matter is not yet regarded by men with as much apprehension as it deserves. (Ibid).

Screaming Caused by an appetite of expulsion, as hath been said: for when the spirits cannot expel the thing that hurteth, in their strife to do it, by notion of consent they expel the voice. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Second choice A man ought to have one thing under another, as, if he cannot have that he seeketh in the best degree, yet to have it in a second. (Bacon, Adv., 1603–05).

Secondary qualities All qualities of bodies, which result from the combination and mutual modification of the elementary and primary qualities. [Also see Elementary qualities.]

Secret system How far Bacon meant to keep his system secret or under what motive is still in question today. That the discretion anciently observed, though by the precedent of many vain persons and deceivers abused, of publishing part and reserving part to a private succession, and of publishing in such a manner whereby it may not be to the taste or capacity of all, but shall as it were single and adopt his reader, is not to be laid aside; both for the avoiding of abuse in the excluded, and the strengthening of affection in the admitted. (Bacon, Val. Term., Ch. 18).
To ascend further by scale I do forbear, partly because it would draw on the example to an over-great length, but chiefly because it would open that which in this work I determine to reserve. (Bacon, Val. Term., Ch. 11).
And as Alexander Borgia was wont to say of the expedition of the French for Naples, that they came with chalk in their hands to mark up their lodgings, and not with weapons to fight; so I like better that entry of truth which cometh peaceable with chalk to mark up those minds which are capable to lodge and harbour it, than that which cometh with pugnacity and contention. (Bacon, Adv).
Another diversity of method there is, [he is speaking of the different methods of tradition] which hath some affinity with the former, used in some cases by the discretion of the ancients, but disgraced since by the imposture of many vain persons, who have made it as a false light for their counterfeit merchandises; and that is, enigmatical and disclosed. The pretence whereof is to remove the vulgar capacities from being admitted to the secrets of knowledge, and to reserve them to selected auditors, or wits of such sharpness as can pierce the veil. (Bacon, Adv).
He possibly meant to withhold the publication of his formula (secret system) as a subject too abstruse to be handled successfully except by the fit and few. (Spedding).

Security My meaning was plain and simple, that his Lordship might, through his great fortune, be less apt to cast, and foresee the unfaithfulness of friends, and malignity of enviers and accidents of times. Guicciardini maketh the same judgment, not of a particular person but of the wisest State of Europe, the Senate of Venice, when he saith their prosperity had made them secure, and underweighers of perils. (Bacon, Letter to the King, August 31, 1617).

Serre To join closely; Fr; serrer. Bacon has used it, and Milton certainly employs the participle serried, but it is supposed from to serry. This word was attempted to be introduced into a passage of Shakespeare’s Timon, but without necessity or propriety.

Self-lovers Extreme self-lovers will set a man’s house on fire, though it were but to roast their eggs. (Bacon, Remains).

Seeming He that is only real, had need have exceeding great parts of virtue as the stone had need to be rich that is set without foil. It doth add much to a man’s reputation to have good forms. (Bacon, Essay: III).

Shame Causeth blushing, and casting down of the eyes. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Shew of Advancement Towards the perfection of nature. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Ships Of 1200 tons were rare in Bacon’s time and he refers either to the Prince Royal built in 1610 by Phineas Pett, of Emanuel College, Cambridge; was 114 feet in length and the cross-beam 44 feet; or to the Trade’s-Increase built in 1609. (Bacon, Hist. Vent). [Also see Chariots with sails.]

Ships and boats for going under water Bacon refers to Drebbel’s inventions exhibited in 1620. (Bacon, New Atlantis).

Sighing Caused by the drawing in of a greater quantity of breath to refresh the heart that laboureth, like a great draught when one is thirsty. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv). [Also see Sobbing]

Silence Upon question whether a man show speak or forbear speech. (Bacon, Promus 1148).
Silence gives to words both grace and authority. (Bacon, De Aug. Bk. VI. Antitheta).
Sirence is the sleep which nourishes wisdom. Silence is the style of wisdom. Silence nourishes thought. (Ibid).
[On being charged with a fault] guard against a melancholy and stubborn silence, for this either turns the fault wholly upon you, or impeaches your inferior. (Bacon, Adv., 1603–05).

Silenced Not talked of. (Bacon, History of King Henry VII.).

Six and seven, or At sixes and sevens That is, in a state of neglect and hazard. This odd phrase, which is still in use, has been fully exemplified by Johnson; and very admirably from Bacon, who jocularly changes it to six and five, in allusion to pope Sixtus the Fifth.

Sloth He who is sluggish, and defers everything to the last moment of execution, must needs walk every step, as it were, midst briers and thorns, which must catch and stop him. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VIII).

Snaste Same word as snat, which is given in Bailey’s Dictionary as a North Country word for burnt wick or snuff. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Sneezing Looking against the sun doth induce sneezing. The cause is not the heating of the nostrils; for then the holding up of the nostrils against the sun, though one wink, would do it; but the drawing down of the moisture of the brain; for it will make the eyes run with water: and the drawing of moisture to the eyes, doth draw it to the nostrils by motion of consent; and so followeth sneezing: as contrariwise, the tickling of the nostrils within, doth draw the moisture to the nostrils, and to the eyes by consent; for they also will water. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv; Aristotle, Problems XXXIII. 1).

Soak or soake Another form of the word suck. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Sobbing Same as sighing stronger. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv). [Also see Sighing.]

Social rank Men of birth and quality will leave the practice when it comes so low as barbers, surgeons, butchers, and such base mechanical persons. (Bacon, Speech on Dueling).

Solomon’s House In the New Atlantis, was a prophetic scheme of the Royal Society as Glanvill tells in his address to that body, prefixed to his Scepsis Scientifica, published in 1665. [Also see Part III: New Atlantis]

Solyman’s lesson On the art of sieges; “Come close to me,” said the Sultan, “but on your head be it if you tread on the carpet on which I sit.” The vizier reflected for a while, then gradually rolling up the carpet, advanced close to his instructor. “All is said,” resumed Solyman; “you know now how strong places are to be taken.” (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI). A lesson given in relation to the siege of Rhodes in 1521.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Bacon, Essays: Of Studies). It is a shame Bacon did not mention the titles of these books. But since Ben Jonson was one of Bacon’s pen men, we may assume that Bacon had at least for the digesting books the same opinion as Jonson, “that Quintilian’s books were not only to be read, but altogether digested.” 1 [Also see Part III: Ben’s Journey to Scotland to Meet Drummond].

Sophisma That which people praise is good, that which they blame is bad. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Soul’s immortality The doctrine of this is attributed to Aristotle and his followers, who are contrasted with the Platonists, as being more immersed in the senses. What Aristotle’s opinion as to the immortality of the soul really was, is a question which when his philosophy began to be studied independently of the scholastic theology attracted great attention. In common with others who in his day professed themselves followers of the genuine Aristotelian philosophy, he obtained, perhaps not undeservedly, the reputation of holding irreligious opinions on this and on other questions. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. I).

Soundness of direction Prevent error. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Sounds Move better downwards than upwards as been asserted by Aristotle. (Prob. XI. 45; Bacon, Syl. Sylv).
There be these differences in general by which sounds are divided: a. musical, immusical; b. treble, base; c. flat, sharp; d. soft, loud; e. exterior, interior; f. clean, harsh or purling; g. articulate, inarticulate. (Bacon, Historia Soni et Auditus).

Spang A spangle; this seems to have been the original word, being from the German spange. Ocs and spangs, as they are of no great cost, so they are of most glory. (Bacon).

Specific gravities [εϋρηκα]; eureka; of Archimedes related to the discovery of a method of determining the specific gravity of a body which could not be made implere mensuram. If he had had a crown of pure gold of the same size and form as the suspected one, he need only have weighed the one against the other; and if the latter were lighter, the question as to its being alloyed would have been settled. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. V).
Bacon refers to the discovery of Archimedes without distinguishing between his own inartificial method of determining specific gravities, which consisted in filing a measure with different substances and then weighing it, and that of Archimedes. (Bacon, Historia Densi et Rari).

Speech There are three kinds: (Bacon, Med. Sac)

1. Of those who, as soon as they get any subject matter, straightway make an art of it, fit it with technical terms, reduce all into distinctions, thence educe positions and assertions, and frame oppositions by questions and answer. Hence the rubbish and pother of the schoolmen. The first catches and entangles man’s sense and understanding.
2. Of those who through vanity of wit, as a kind of holy poets, imagine and invent all variety of stories and examples, for the training and moulding of men’s minds: when the lives of the fathers, and innumerable figments of the ancient heretics. The second allures.
3. Of those who fill everything with mysteries and high sounding phrases, allegories and allusions: which mystic and Gnostic style of discourse a great number of heretics have adopted. The third astonishes: all seduce it. [speech.]

Speeches Short speeches which fly abroad (are) like darts shot out of their secret intentions. (Bacon, Essay: Of Seditions).
Not a simple slander, but a seditious slander, like to that the Poet speaketh of Calamosque armare veneno. A venomous dart that hath both iron and poison. (Bacon, Charge against St. John).
Apophthegms are pointed speeches. (Bacon, Apo. Pref).

Sperable or sparable A small nail, such as are put into the shoes of rustics, and sometimes called clouts. Bacon uses sperable, as an adjective, derived from spero, in the sense of to be hoped for.

Sperm Of drunken men is unfruitful. The cause is, for that it is over moistened, and wanteth spissitude: and we have a merry saying, that they that go drunk to bed get daughters. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Sponges Increase. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Spots in the sun The nebula Præsepe in Cancer, and the one in the head of Orion, were the two first nebulæ ever resolved into distinct stars. Galileo gave figures of them as they appeared through his telescope in the Sydereus Nuncius. What Bacon goes on to say of spots in the sun is particularly interesting Galileo did not publish on the subject before 1613; so that Bacon’s information was probably not derived from Galileo, though it is believed that Galileo’s first observations were made in November 1610. The earliest account which is known to have been printed of these spots is that of Fabricius, whose father’s interesting correspondence with Kepler was published in the 1800’s. (Bacon, Descriptio Globi Intellectualis).

Stamping Caused by an imagination of the act of revenge. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Stars When one counts the stars warts appear on their fingers.
Whether the stars are nourished, and likewise, whether they are increased, diminished, generated, and extinguished. (Bacon, Intellectual Globe).
There was one of the ancients indeed who with a plebeian kind of observation thought that the stars are nourished as fire is, and that they feed on the waters and ocean and moisture of the earth, and are repaired by vapours and exhalations. But this opinion does not seem worthy to supply matter for a question. (Ibid).

Statua A statue. Lt. This word was long used in English as a trisyllable, though statue was also employed. Bacon has it more than once in his Essay 45; and also in other places: It is not possible to have the true pictures or statuaes of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar. (Adv). He speaks afterwards of the statua of Polyphemus. Hence Mr. Reed very justly remarked, that statua should be read in those passages of Shakespeare, where the dissyllable statue makes a defective verse.
For as Statuas and Pictures are dumb histories, so histories are speaking Pictures. Wherein, if my affection be not too great, or my reading too small, I am of this opinion, that if Plutarch were have to write lives by parallels, it would trouble him for virtue and fortune both to find for her a parallel amongst women. (Bacon, Letter to the Lord Chancellor, referring to the deceased Queen Elizabeth).

Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner Amias Paulet’s comment when he saw men hasten to a conclusion. (Bacon, Essays: XXV).

Stellionate Fraudulent dealing; a term of the Roman civil law, adopted in English only by Bacon. Stellionatûs crimen; of which a man was guilty, who sold or pledged as his own, what was the property of another: It discerneth of crimes of stellionate, and the inchoatious towards crimes capital, not actually committed. (Bacon). The word is not used in the English law, nor generally found in Dictionaries. Blount’s Glossographia has it, with a reference to Bacon.

Stickler A moderator or umpire at a tournament, a wrestling match etc., appointed to see fair play and to part the combatant when they have fought enough; one who takes an active or busy part in contest; a factious, seditious or pragmatic contender.

Still A steep ascent; perhaps from stigele, a ladder, Saxon. It appears that Bacon has used still as a substantive for calmness, or quiet.

Stone They bring from the West Indies, hath a peculiar force to move gravel, and to dissolve the stone; insomuch as laid but to the wrist, it hath so forcibly sent down gravel, as men have been glad to remove it, it was so violent. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).
A gentleman which had one of them here, the best of them that I have seen, having put it to his arm, he doth make him to expel and cast out much sand, that many times he doth take it away, for that he thinketh that it doeth hurt him for to put out so much, and in taking it away he ceaseth to cast any from him. (Frampton). 2

Strachy Occurs only in the following passage, which has much exercised conjectural ingenuity, though apparently hitherto in vain.

There is example for ‘t; the lady of the Strachy
married the yeoman of the wardrobe.
Twelfth Night Act. II, Sc. 5.

After various attempts of other commentators, Steevens conjectured that it should be read starchy, and explained it to mean the laundry. But no such word was ever seen in that sense; nor does it appear that it would make an apposite example of an unequal match, which is the thing required. Why the lady of the laundry should be so much superior to the yeoman of the wardrobe, is far from clear. 3

Strength Athletic. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Studies In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times; for his thoughts will fly to it of themselves; so as the spaces of other business or studies will suffice. A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. (Bacon, Essay: Of Nature in Men).

Subjects traitors In the edition of 1622 these words are printed “his subjects, traitors, are received,” in the MS., there is no comma before or after traitors. And this expressed the intended construction better. (Bacon, History of King Henry VII.).
It is the same form with merchants strangers; for so it is written in the MS.; the double plural, without any comma between. So it was usual in Bacon’s time to say letters patents; not letters patent. In the edition of 1622 merchants stranger is printed merchant-strangers. According to which rule subject traitors would be corrected into subject-traitors. The true modern equivalents would be stranger-merchants and traitor-subjects. (Ibid).

Submarine Bacon refers to the experiments exhibited by Drebbel in 1620. One of them was of a boat that would go under water. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. V). [Also see Part III: New Atlantis]

Substantia In the school philosophy among the Realists, every substantial form (and the soul among the rest) was regarded as a substance. St. Thomas Aquinas affirms that angels are immaterial forms. Bacon’s remark that the soul had hitherto been looked on rather as a function than a substance, refers to Melancthon’s exposition of the Aristotelian doctrine. For Melancthon, whose views of the Peripatetic philosophy had long great influence in the Protestant Universities; he affirms that, according to the true view of Aristotle’s opinion, the soul is not a substance but a function. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. IV).

Subtility of spirit Of the understanding. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Successions of winds If the wind follows the motion of the sun, that is if it move from east to south, from south to west, from west to north, from north to east, it does not generally go back; or if it does, it is only for a short time. (Bacon, History of Winds). [Also see Names of Winds.]

Suffering This pain also was pleasant by comparison with the suffering of my neighbours. (Bacon, Promus 454 in imperfect Latin).
For as it savoureth of vanity to match ourselves highly in our own conceit, so, on the other side, it is a good, sound conclusion that if our betters have sustained the like events, we have the less cause to be grieved. In this kind of consolation I have not been wanting to myself. (Bacon, Letter to Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1622).

Suits There is use also of ambitious men in pulling down the greatness of any subject that overtops. (Bacon, Essay: Of Ambition, 1625).

Superstition Superstitious narrations of sorceries, witchcrafts, dreams, divinations, and the like, where there is an assurance and clear evidence of the fact, be altogether excluded. For it is not yet known in what cases, and how far, effects attributed to superstition do participate of natural causes; and therefore howsoever the practice of such things is to be condemned, yet from the speculation and consideration of them light may be taken, not only for the discerning of the offences, but for the further disclosing of nature. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).
It is thought that the sounds of bells will dispel lightnings and thunder. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Supposition If things were as they might be. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Suspicion Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. (Bacon, Essays: XXXI).

S (Latin)

Salings Saltpits; apophthegms. That you may extract salt out of, and sprinkle it where you will. They serve to be interlaced in continued speech. (Bacon, Apo).

Sapiens corde appellabitur prudens, sed dulcis eloquio majora reperiet: The wise in heart shall be called prudent, but he that is sweet of speech shall compass greater things. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus Each is to other a theatre large enough. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. I).

Scientia inflat (Corinth. 8.1; Bacon, De Aug., Bk. I).

Scientiam dissimulando simulavit An affectation of knowledge under pretence of ignorance. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Scilicet ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros A true proficiency in liberal learning softens and humanises the manners. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. I).

Scrutari arcane imperii Examine too deeply the mysteries of empire.

Secreta Secretorum Treatise ascribed in the Middle Ages to Aristotle. (Bacon, Syl. Sylv).

Secundum exterius Outwardly at least.

Sed adhuc popullus non direxerat cor suum ad Dominum Deum patrum suorum: But as yet the people had not turned their hearts towards the Lord God of their fathers. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Sed et cunctis sermonibus qui dicuntur ne accommodes aurem tuam, ne forte audias servum tuum maledicentem tibi: Hearken not unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Sed plerumque regiœ voluntates, ut vehementes sunt, sic mobiles, sœpeque ipsœ sibi adversœ: Royal desires, as they are violent, so are they changeable, and often incompatible with each other. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Senibus veneres mutantur in gratias This idea has been expressed in a different form by Mr. Milnes: on that deep retiring shore, frequent pearls of beauty lie; where the passion-waves of yore, fiercely beat and mounted high. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. VI).

Serpens Mosis Serpents of the enchanters. Err; it should be the serpent of Aaron. (Ex. VII.12 & Bacon, De Aug., Bk. I.; II.; Adv., Bk. II).

Servatis legibus materiae With a corresponding decrease of volume. (Bacon, Nov. Org., Aphorismorum IV).

Si inæqualibus æqualia addas, omnia erunt inæqualia If equals be added to unequals, the wholes will be unequal. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Sic probo I prove it thus. (Bacon).

Sic vos non vobis So be it for you, though not for yours. (Bacon).

Sine fraude Without harm. (Bacon).

Sodam Soda; from the low Latin for a headache. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. V).

Solus Vespasianus mutates in melius Vespasian the only one of the emperors that changed for the better. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).

Specificatis In things that have a specific character; In Bacon’s time only certain things were supposed to belong to natural species, all others being merely elementary. (Bacon, Nov. Org., Aphorismorum VII.; De Aug., II. 3).

Speculum Used by Bacon for the term lens. (Bacon, Nov. Org., Aphorismorum XII).
Used by Bacon for a glass and appears from a corresponding passage in the Adv. This use of the word is sanctioned by the authority of C. Agrippa, who distinguished lenses from mirrors and called the former specula perspicua. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. III).

Spiculi jactum When archers try which can shoot further, they call it flight-shooting; the distance would be between 200 and 300 yards. (Bacon, New Atlantis).
Old double, according to Justice Shallow, would have “carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and half;” that is, 284 or 294 yards. (Shakespeare). 1

Spiraculum Nature of the soul. Man’s two souls that Bacon derived from the writings of Telesius. [Also see Part II: Bouillet; Telesius Bernadino.]

Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos, et obstetricante manu ejus eductus est Coluber tortuosus: By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked Serpent. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. I).

Splendet tremulo sub lumine pontus Beneath the trembling light glitters the sea. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II.; De Aug., Bk. III.;Virgil, Æn. VII. 9).

State super vias antiquas, et videte quænam sit via recta et bona, et ambulate in ca: Stand ye in the old ways, and see which is the good way, and walk therein. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. I).

Struthiones Ostrich; also a term used to signify a sparrow. (Bacon, Nov. Org., Aphorismorum XII).

Suavibus modis Smoothly. (Rawley).

Suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem To feel himself each day a better man than he was the day before. (Bacon, Adv., Bk. I).

Sub omni lapide latet anguis A snake lurks under every stone. (Bacon).

Summa Theologiæ The dogmatic basis consists chiefly of spiritualising interpretations, sanctioned by the Fathers and especially by S Augustin, of certain texts of Scripture and of the supposed visions of Dionysius the Areopagite. The theory of the angelic nature (both in its first and in its fallen state) which the ingenuity of the schoolmen elaborated from these data, is a most remarkable instance of metaphysical creation; being no less than a determination of the conditions of thought and volition which exist among intelligences of a higher order than our own. (Bacon, De Aug., Bk. III).

Sylla potuit, ego non potero? Sylla could do it, why not I? (Bacon, Adv., Bk. II).