He notes the stages and points to which his plans have reached; he indicates, with a favourite quotation or apophthegm--"_Plus ultra_"-- "_ausus vana contemnere_"-- "_aditus non nisi sub persona infantis_" soon to be familiar to the world in his published writings--the lines of argument, sometimes alternative ones, which were before him; he draws out schemes of inquiry, specimen tables, distinctions and classifications about the subject of Motion, in English interlarded with Latin, or in Latin interlarded with English, of his characteristic and practical sort; he notes the various sources from which he might look for help and co-operation--"of learned men beyond the seas"-- "to begin first in France to print it"-- "laying for a place to command wits and pens;" he has his eye on rich and childless bishops, on the enforced idleness of State prisoners in the Tower, like Northumberland and Raleigh, on the great schools and universities, where he might perhaps get hold of some college for "Inventors"-- as we should say, for the endowment of research.

These matters fill up a large space of his notes.

But his thoughts were also busy about his own advancement.

And to these sheets of miscellaneous memoranda Bacon confided not only his occupations and his philosophical and political ideas, but, with a curious innocent unreserve, the arts and methods which he proposed to use in order to win the favour of the great and to pull down the reputation of his rivals.
He puts down in detail how he is to recommend himself to the King and the King's favourites-- "To set on foot and maintain access with his Majesty, Dean of the Chapel, May, Murray.

Keeping a course of access at the beginning of every term and vacation, with a memorial.