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For your Fortune , and Merit both , haue beene Eminent . And you haue planted
Things , that are like to last . I doe now publish my Essayes ; which of all my other
workes , haue beene most Currant : For that , as it seemes , they come home , to
...
For your Fortune , and Merit both , haue beene Eminent . And you haue planted
Things , that are like to last . I doe now publish my Essayes ; which of all my other
workes , haue beene most Currant : For that , as it seemes , they come home , to
...
Page xxx
... Estates 30 Of Regiment of Health 31 Of Suspicion 32 Of Discourse 33 Of
Plantations 34 Of Riches 35 Of Prophecies 36 Of Ambition 31 Of Maskes and
Triumphs Of Nature in Men 39 Of Custome and Education 40 Of Fortune 41 Of
Vsury .
... Estates 30 Of Regiment of Health 31 Of Suspicion 32 Of Discourse 33 Of
Plantations 34 Of Riches 35 Of Prophecies 36 Of Ambition 31 Of Maskes and
Triumphs Of Nature in Men 39 Of Custome and Education 40 Of Fortune 41 Of
Vsury .
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VIII Of Marriage and Single Life H E that hath Wife and Children , hath given
Hostages to Fortune ; For they are Impediments , to great Enterprises , either of
Vertue , or Mischiefe . Certainly , the best workes , and of greatest Merit for the
Publike ...
VIII Of Marriage and Single Life H E that hath Wife and Children , hath given
Hostages to Fortune ; For they are Impediments , to great Enterprises , either of
Vertue , or Mischiefe . Certainly , the best workes , and of greatest Merit for the
Publike ...
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... will either feed upon their owne Good , or upon others Evill ; And who wanteth
the one , wil prey upon the other ; And who so is out of Hope to attaine to
anothers Vertue , will seeke to come at even hand , by Depressing an others
Fortune .
... will either feed upon their owne Good , or upon others Evill ; And who wanteth
the one , wil prey upon the other ; And who so is out of Hope to attaine to
anothers Vertue , will seeke to come at even hand , by Depressing an others
Fortune .
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... they are raised . For it doth upbraid unto them , their owne Fortunes ; And
pointeth at them , and commeth oftner into their remembrance , and incurreth
likewise ... lesse envied . For their Fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no Of
Enby 31.
... they are raised . For it doth upbraid unto them , their owne Fortunes ; And
pointeth at them , and commeth oftner into their remembrance , and incurreth
likewise ... lesse envied . For their Fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no Of
Enby 31.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil Golden treasury series |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | William Aldis Wright |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1879 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 26 Jun 2013 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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