PART I.

Evelyn (in his Discourse of Medals) describes Bacon with "a spacious
Forehead and piercing Eye, always (as he had been told by one that knew
him well) looking upwards, as a soul in sublime contemplation." Osborn
(in the second part of his Advice to his Son), writes : " His majcstical carriage
struck an awful reverence in those he questioned."