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... servants ) in creat- ing and breeding an emulation between brothers during childhood , which many times sorteth 18 to discord , when they are men , and disturbeth families.19 The Italians make little difference between children and ...
... servants ) in creat- ing and breeding an emulation between brothers during childhood , which many times sorteth 18 to discord , when they are men , and disturbeth families.19 The Italians make little difference between children and ...
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... servants of fame , " and EN in great place are thrice servants - servants of II servants of business ; so as3 they have no freedom , neither in their persons , nor in their actions , nor in their times.4 It is a strange desire to seek ...
... servants of fame , " and EN in great place are thrice servants - servants of II servants of business ; so as3 they have no freedom , neither in their persons , nor in their actions , nor in their times.4 It is a strange desire to seek ...
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... servants ' hands from taking , but bind the hands of suitors also from offering . For integrity used 39 doth the one , but integrity professed , and with a manifest detestation of bribery , 40 doth the other ; " 1 and avoid not only the ...
... servants ' hands from taking , but bind the hands of suitors also from offering . For integrity used 39 doth the one , but integrity professed , and with a manifest detestation of bribery , 40 doth the other ; " 1 and avoid not only the ...
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... servant or a favourite , if he be inward , 43 and no other apparent cause of esteem , 44 is commonly thought but a by - way to close45 corruption . For roughness , it is a needless cause of discontent : severity breedeth fear , but ...
... servant or a favourite , if he be inward , 43 and no other apparent cause of esteem , 44 is commonly thought but a by - way to close45 corruption . For roughness , it is a needless cause of discontent : severity breedeth fear , but ...
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... servant , I allow 4 well ; so that he be such a one that hath the language , and hath been in the country before ; whereby he may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen in the country where they go , what acquaintances ...
... servant , I allow 4 well ; so that he be such a one that hath the language , and hath been in the country before ; whereby he may be able to tell them what things are worthy to be seen in the country where they go , what acquaintances ...
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Page 2 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 4 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 2 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 1 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 4 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 2 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 25 - The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts: neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding...
Page 15 - ... as the place deserveth, but not long ; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant of acquaintance ; let him sequester himself from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth...
Page 35 - All practice is to discover, or to work. Men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares ; and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done, and cannot find an apt pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him ; or his ends, and so persuade him ; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him ; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
Page xii - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.