Bacon's Essays, with annotations by Richard Whately and notes and a glossarial index, by Franklin Fiske Heard.

618 NOTES.
the people bow, but vain-glory boweth to them. -History of King
Henry VII. Works, VI. 241.
p. 466, 1. 4. "popularity." A courting of popular favor. "Popularity" was once the wooing, not, as now, the having won, the
favor of the people. The word, which is passive now, was
active then. - TRENCH. Glossary.
Cato (the younger) charged Murmena, and indited him in open
Court for poputlarity and ambition.- HOLLAND. Plutarch's Morals,
p. 200, ed. 1657.
p. 466, last line. "the last impression." Comp. "Adv. of Learning,"
II. 22, ~4: —
A man shall find in the wisest sort of these relations which the
Italians make touching conclaves, the natures of the several cardinals handsomely and lively painted forth: a man shall meet with in
every day's conference, the denominations of sensitive, dry, formal,
real, humorous, certain, huomo di prima impressione, 7iuomo di
ultima impressione, and the like.
ESSAY XLIX.
p. 469, 1. 21. "deprave." The meaning of this word is well illustrated
in the following passage from Sir Thomas Browne's "Religio
Medici," in the address " To the Reader:"I have lived to behold the highest perversion of that excellent
invention [printing], the name of his Majesty defamed, the honour
of Parliament depraved, the writings of both depravedly, anticipatively, counterfeitly, imprinted. -- orks, II. xxxi. ed. Pickering,
1835.
You may abuse the works of any man; deprave his writings that
you cannot equal.- DECKER'S Gull's Hornbook, p. 122, ed. Nott.
Chapman dedicated his translation of " The Georgics " of -lesiod
(1618) to Bacon. In the dedication is this passage:
All greatness much more gracing impostors than men truly desertful. The worse depraving the better; and that so frontlessly,
that shame and justice should fly the earth for them.
p. 469, 1. 21. "disable."
Our ancestors felt that to injure the character of another was the
most effectual way of" disabling" him; and out of a sense of this
they often used "disable" in the sense of to disparage, to speak
slightingly of. - TRENCH'S Glossary.