Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients

553 “Participators in cares.”

554 “Leaders in war.”

555 Proportion, dimensions.

556 “Equal to their duties.”

557 “To expound the law.”

558 “To make the law.”

559 The Mosaic law. He alludes to Deuteronomy xxvii. 17. “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark.”

560 “A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring.”—Proverbs xxv. 26.

561 “Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth.”—Amos v. 7.

562 “He who wrings the nose strongly brings blood.” Proverbs xxx. 33: “Surely, the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.”

563 “He will rain snares upon them.” Psalm xi. 6: “Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire, and brimstone, and an horrible tempest.”

564 Strained.

565 “It is the duty of a judge to consider not only the facts, but the circumstances of the case.”—Ovid. Trist. I. i. 37.

566 Pliny the Younger, Ep. B. 6, E. 2, has the observation: “Patientiam ... quæ pars magna justitiæ est;” “Patience, which is a great part of justice.”

567 Is not successful.

568 Makes him to feel less confident of the goodness of his cause.

569 Altercate, or bandy words with the judge.

570 “Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles!”—St. Matthew vii. 16.

571 Plundering.

572 “Friends of the court.”

573 “Parasites,” or “flatterers of the court.”

574 Which were compiled by the decemvirs.

575 “The safety of the people is the supreme law.”

576 “Mine.”

577 “Yours.”

578 He alludes to 1 Kings x. 19, 30: “The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps.” The same verses are repeated in 1 Chronicles ix. 18, 19.

579 “We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”—1 Timothy i. 8.

580 A boast.

581 In our version it is thus rendered: “Be ye angry, and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.”—Ephesians iv. 26.

582 Sen. De Ira i. 1.

583 “In your patience possess ye your souls.”—Luke xvi. 19.

584 “And leave their lives in the wound.” The quotation is from Virgil’s Georgics, iv. 238.

585 Susceptibility upon.

586 “A thicker covering for his honor.”

587 Pointed and peculiarly appropriate to the party attacked.

588 “Ordinary abuse.”

589 “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.”—Ecclesiastes i. 9, 10.

590 In his Phædo.

591 “There is no remembrance of former things: neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come, with those that shall come hereafter.”—Ecclesiastes i. 11.

592 “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”—1 Kings xvii. 1. “And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.”—1 Kings xviii. 1.