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Page 118
... to make a Small State Great , as their Gift lieth the other way ; To bring a Great
and Flourishing Estate · to Ruine and Decay . And certainly , those Degenerate
Arts and Shifts , whereby many Counsellours and Governours , gaine both
Favour ...
... to make a Small State Great , as their Gift lieth the other way ; To bring a Great
and Flourishing Estate · to Ruine and Decay . And certainly , those Degenerate
Arts and Shifts , whereby many Counsellours and Governours , gaine both
Favour ...
Page 124
... and sometimes in their Highest Commands . Nay , it seemeth at this instant ,
they are sensible of this want of Natives ; as by the Pragmaticall Sanction , now
published , appeareth . It is certaine , that Sedentary , and Withindoore Arts 124 ...
... and sometimes in their Highest Commands . Nay , it seemeth at this instant ,
they are sensible of this want of Natives ; as by the Pragmaticall Sanction , now
published , appeareth . It is certaine , that Sedentary , and Withindoore Arts 124 ...
Page 125
It is certaine , that Sedentary , and Withindoore Arts , and delicate Manufactures (
that require rather the Finger , then the Arme ) have , in their Nature , a
Contrariety , to a Military disposition . And generally , all Warlike People , are a
little idle ...
It is certaine , that Sedentary , and Withindoore Arts , and delicate Manufactures (
that require rather the Finger , then the Arme ) have , in their Nature , a
Contrariety , to a Military disposition . And generally , all Warlike People , are a
little idle ...
Page 133
Physicians are some of them so pleasing , and conformable to the Humor of the
Patient , as they presse not the true Cure of the Disease ; And some other are so
Regular , in proceeding according to Art , for the Disease , as they respect not ...
Physicians are some of them so pleasing , and conformable to the Humor of the
Patient , as they presse not the true Cure of the Disease ; And some other are so
Regular , in proceeding according to Art , for the Disease , as they respect not ...
Page 150
... that the Q . Mother , who was given to Curious Arts , caused the King her
Husbands Nativitie , to be Calculated , under a false Name ; And the Astrologer
gave a Iudgement , that he should be killed in a Duell ; At which the Queene
laughed ...
... that the Q . Mother , who was given to Curious Arts , caused the King her
Husbands Nativitie , to be Calculated , under a false Name ; And the Astrologer
gave a Iudgement , that he should be killed in a Duell ; At which the Queene
laughed ...
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| Title | Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil Golden treasury series |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | William Aldis Wright |
| Edition | 3, reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1868 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 May 2005 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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