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precepts, positions, extending to much variety of
occasions; whereupon we will stay awhile, offering to
consideration some number of examples.
Bacon has much to say of Solomon as the forerunner of
himself. In fact, he derives (pp. 39­40) his pedagogical theory
of aphorism from Solomon:
So like wise in the person of Salomon the King, we
see the gift or endowment of wisdom and learning, both
in Salomon’s petition and in God’s assent thereunto,
preferred before all other terrene and temporal felicity. By
virtue of which grant or donative of God Salomon became
enabled not only to write those excellent Parables or
Aphorisms concerning divine and moral philosophy; but
also to compile a Natural History of all verdure, from the