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" DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature. "
Crito; or, A dialogue on beauty [translated] by H. Beaumont (pseud. of ... - Page 113
by Robert Dodsley - 1762
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall

Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...Vertue.] 25 (secondstate corr.); ~; 25(u) 18 No,] ~A 25 Of Deformity. [2K3V] XLIIII. Deformed Persons are commonly even with Nature: For as Nature hath done ill by them; So doe they by Nature: Being for the most part, (as the Scripture saith) void of Naturall 5 Affection;...
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The Tragedy of Richard III, with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the ...

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 656 pages
...Villaine, 35 34. well fpoken] well-fpoken F3F4 et seq. in Essay xliv. Of Deformity, says: 'Deformed persons are commonly even with Nature: For as Nature hath done ill by them; So doe they by Nature: Being for the most part, (as the Scripture saith) void of Naturall Affectiou;...
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A Case of Curiosities: A Novel

Allen Kurzweil - Fiction - 2001 - 381 pages
...effectively kept in check by the Consistory. Do you know what Bacon says? He says, 'Deformed persons are commonly even with nature, for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being . . . void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature.'"...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 28

Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...after Cecil's death, and everyone knew that its opening sentence referred to him: ' Deformed persons are commonly even with nature: for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection. And...
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Encyclopædia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences ..., Volume 1

Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 634 pages
...with in literature of the feeling of our forefathers about this. Even Bacon said : "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature, for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being void of natural affection." BONE. There is widespread reverence for and...
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A Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III

Wolfgang Clemen - Drama - 2005 - 280 pages
...Berkeley, ' "Determined" in Richard 111, I, i, 30' SQ, XIV (1963), pp. 483-484. 1 'Deformed persons are commonly even with Nature. For as Nature hath done ill by them; so doe they by Nature: Being for the most part, (as the Scripture saith) void of Natural! Affection;...
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Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages

Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - Health & Fitness - 2006 - 597 pages
...bark at me as I halt by them.... Richard III, Act I, Scene i Francis Bacon; 1625 695 Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature — ; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of naturall affection;...
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The Shakespeare Code

Virginia M. Fellows - Fiction - 2006 - 383 pages
...the Poor maid, . . . buried in silence — And as I before have said in my essay, Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; For as nature hath done ill by them, So do they by nature — Therefore [they] are Extreme bold, first in their own defense, . . . To watch...
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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

Pat Rogers - Literary Criticism - 2007
...essay "Of Deformity" (the text of which was often quoted in attacks on Pope) that "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature: For as nature hath done ill by them; so do they by nature: being for the most part, (as the Scripture saith), void of natural affection;...
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The Alienist and Neurologist, Volume 16

Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1895 - 572 pages
...adaption of the mind to the deformity of the body concurs too with Bacon's theory: "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature, for as nature hath done ill by them so do they by nature, being void of natural affection, and so they have their revenge on nature." One...
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