Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 388 pages |
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Page xxxi
... Vain - Glory 55 Of Honour and Reputation 56 57 Of Iudicature Of Anger 58 Of Vicissitude of Things . Of Fame , a fragment PAGE · 207 · 210 • 213 216 219 222 · 228 231 239 ESSAYES I Of Truth W would not stay for an The Table xxxi.
... Vain - Glory 55 Of Honour and Reputation 56 57 Of Iudicature Of Anger 58 Of Vicissitude of Things . Of Fame , a fragment PAGE · 207 · 210 • 213 216 219 222 · 228 231 239 ESSAYES I Of Truth W would not stay for an The Table xxxi.
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... Honour of Mans Nature ; And that Mixture of Falshood , is like Allay in Coyne of Gold and Silver ; which may make the Metall worke the better , but it embaseth it . For these winding , and crooked courses , are the Goings of the Ser ...
... Honour of Mans Nature ; And that Mixture of Falshood , is like Allay in Coyne of Gold and Silver ; which may make the Metall worke the better , but it embaseth it . For these winding , and crooked courses , are the Goings of the Ser ...
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... Honour aspireth to it ; Griefe flieth to it ; Feare pre - occupateth it ; Nay we reade , after Otho the Emperour had slaine himselfe , Pitty ( which is the tenderest of Affections ) provoked many to die , out of meere compassion to ...
... Honour aspireth to it ; Griefe flieth to it ; Feare pre - occupateth it ; Nay we reade , after Otho the Emperour had slaine himselfe , Pitty ( which is the tenderest of Affections ) provoked many to die , out of meere compassion to ...
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... Honour , or the like . Therfore why should I be angry with a Man , for loving himselfe better then mee ? And if any Man should doe wrong , meerely out of ill nature , why ? yet it is but like the Thorn , or Bryar , which prick , and ...
... Honour , or the like . Therfore why should I be angry with a Man , for loving himselfe better then mee ? And if any Man should doe wrong , meerely out of ill nature , why ? yet it is but like the Thorn , or Bryar , which prick , and ...
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... mend his owne case , will doe what he can to impaire anothers ; Except these Defects light , upon a very brave , and Heroicall Nature ; which thinketh to make his Naturall Wants , part of his Honour : In that it 30 Essayes.
... mend his owne case , will doe what he can to impaire anothers ; Except these Defects light , upon a very brave , and Heroicall Nature ; which thinketh to make his Naturall Wants , part of his Honour : In that it 30 Essayes.
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