HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE
CAPE TOWN BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS
SHANGHAI PEKING & COPENHAGEN

Born: London, January 22, 1560-1.
Died: Highgate, April 9, 1626.

These 'Essays' were first published in collected form in the year 1625. In 'The World's Classics' they were first published in 1902, and reprinted in 1904, 1909, 1912, 1919, and 1921.

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VI. Of Simulation and Dissimulation.

VII. Of Parents and Children

VIII. Of Marriage and Single Life.

IX. Of Envy

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EVIII. Of Vicissitude of Things

A Fragment of an Essay of Fame

On Death