. A study in certain seventeenth century essays. Walking for the stomache. Friendship has sixpages added in the 1625 edition, twe pages of the increase beingdue to historical examples and another page to Latin quotations. Whatever the source of these changes, the fact remainsthat a mannerism of style, partially resembling Lyly and partiallyMontaigne, became constantly more evident in the various editionsof the essays. Evidently as the years went by adornment of anartificial sort seemed to Bacon a prime necessity, although henever employed it to such a degree as many of his^contemporar
. A study in certain seventeenth century essays. Walking for the stomache. Friendship has sixpages added in the 1625 edition, twe pages of the increase beingdue to historical examples and another page to Latin quotations. Whatever the source of these changes, the fact remainsthat a mannerism of style, partially resembling Lyly and partiallyMontaigne, became constantly more evident in the various editionsof the essays. Evidently as the years went by adornment of anartificial sort seemed to Bacon a prime necessity, although henever employed it to such a degree as many of his^ was not in Bacons nature to be so discursive. 5 Pure euphuism he uses but seldom, as : As for businessa man may think if he will, that two eyes see no more than one; 1. Jusserand, , p. Arber, , p, 13. 3*. Other examples are found in Of Honour, Of Sutes, Of Discourse, Of Studies. , , T7 This tendency may also be accounted for to some degree by tne rather unexpected popularity of the essays. 5. Bacon, , p# 39 or that a man in anger is as wise as he that hath said over thefour and twenty letters; or that a musket may be shot off as wellupon the arm as upon a rest. In general Bacons use of illus-trations is brief, as if he is so busy a man that he cannotlinger to explain,hut must impatiently hurry on to another thoughtMost of them, I daresay, added as conventional embellish-ments necessitated by the custom and taste of the time. Although close analysis of Bacons sentences in hislater editions does not show the elaborate antithesis of words and syllables sounding alike, yet the balanced element is extreme- 1 ly noticeable. For instance,9ee Of Atheism; It is true that alittle philosophy inclineth mans mind to atheism, but depth inphilosophy bringeth mens minds about to religion. That he some-times even employs the Euphuistic balance of parts is proved bythe same essay: They that deny a God destroy mans nobility, forcertainly man is of k
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