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Quern stabilire juvat proavorum tecta vetusta, Omne scelus fugiat, justitiamque colat. Vertit in aerias turres magalia virtus, Inque casas humiles tecta superba nefas. M'Leod and Talisker accompanied us. We passed by the parish church of Durinish. The church-yard is not enclosed, but a pretty murmuring brook runs along one side of it.

And he could not resist the opportunity of marking the revenge of professional knowledge over Bacon's airs of philosophical superiority. "To restore things to their original" was his sneer in Parliament, "this, Instauratio Magna. Instaurare paras Instaura leges justitiamque prius." The charge of corruption was as completely a surprise to Bacon as it was to the rest of the world.

Instaurare paras veterum documenta sophorum: Instaura leges justitiamque prius." He added, with allusion to the ship in the frontispiece of the Novum Organum, "It deserveth not to be read in schools, But to be freighted in the ship of Fools." The tremendous sentences of those days, with their crushing fines, were often worse in sound than in reality.

He tells us Sabinus served the State for five and thirty years with great distinction at home and abroad, and was of unquestionable integrity, but adds jestingly "he talked too much." "Quinque et triginta stipendia in republica fecerat, domi militiaeque clarus; innocentiam justitiamque ejus non argueret: sermonis nimium erat."