"vewllent dire tout-ce qu'ils evocent" a
Des Carles. De la Mémode. III.

THE

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,

AUTHOR OF THE SCARLET LETTER,' ETC.

Aphorisms representing A KNOWLEDGE broken do invite men to
inquire further.

LORD BACON.

PR 2943

.B2

1857

202

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

DELIA BACON,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAP.

I. The Proposition

II. The Age of Elizabeth, and the Elizabethan Men of

III. Extracts from the Life of Raleigh.- Raleigh's School.

IV. Raleigh's School, continued.—The New Academy

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BOOK I.*

THE ELIZABETHAN ART OF DELIVERY AND TRADITION.

PART I.

MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE'S 'PRIVATE AND RETIRED ARTS.'

I. Ascent from Particulars to the Highest Parts of Sciences'

by the Enigmatic Method illustrated

II Further Illustration of 'Particular Methods of Tradition.'-

Embarrassments of Literary Statesmen

I

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or Works

conveying under

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III. The Possibility of great anonymous Works,

published under an assumed name,

rhetorical Disguises the Principal Sciences,-re-suggested

and illustrated

*The HISTORICAL KEY to the ELIZABETHAN ART of TRADITION, which
formed the FIRST BOOK of this Work as it was originally prepared for
the Press, is reserved for separate publication.