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... Empire 20 Of Counsell 51 53 58 21 Of Delaies 63 22 Of Cunning 65 23 Of Wisdome for a Man's Selfe . 69 24 Of Innovations 71 25 Of Dispatch 72 26 Of Seeming Wise 74 27 Of Frendship 28 Of Expence 76 84 29 Of the true Greatnesse of ...
... Empire 20 Of Counsell 51 53 58 21 Of Delaies 63 22 Of Cunning 65 23 Of Wisdome for a Man's Selfe . 69 24 Of Innovations 71 25 Of Dispatch 72 26 Of Seeming Wise 74 27 Of Frendship 28 Of Expence 76 84 29 Of the true Greatnesse of ...
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... Empire of Rome , and Appius Claudius the Decemvir and Law - giver ; Whereof the former was indeed a Voluptuous Man and Inordinate3 ; but the latter was an Austere and wise man : And therefore it seemes ( though 15 rarely ) that Love can ...
... Empire of Rome , and Appius Claudius the Decemvir and Law - giver ; Whereof the former was indeed a Voluptuous Man and Inordinate3 ; but the latter was an Austere and wise man : And therefore it seemes ( though 15 rarely ) that Love can ...
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... empire had he never been emperor . 6 Vespasian was the only em- peror that was changed for the better by empire . 7 administrative capacity 13 8 morals and disposition 9 in seeking office 10 11 to take a side to be neutral 12 i.e. your ...
... empire had he never been emperor . 6 Vespasian was the only em- peror that was changed for the better by empire . 7 administrative capacity 13 8 morals and disposition 9 in seeking office 10 11 to take a side to be neutral 12 i.e. your ...
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... Empire shall have no further need of soldiers . 6 delicate 7 dull 8 in case of any emergency 9 there is usually 10 Such was the state of men's feelings that , while there were few to venture on a deed so foul , most men wished it done ...
... Empire shall have no further need of soldiers . 6 delicate 7 dull 8 in case of any emergency 9 there is usually 10 Such was the state of men's feelings that , while there were few to venture on a deed so foul , most men wished it done ...
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... EMPIRE IT is a miserable State of Minde to have few Things to desire and many Things to feare ; And yet that commonly is the Case of Kings , Who , being at the highest , want Matter of desire , which makes their Mindes more Lan ...
... EMPIRE IT is a miserable State of Minde to have few Things to desire and many Things to feare ; And yet that commonly is the Case of Kings , Who , being at the highest , want Matter of desire , which makes their Mindes more Lan ...
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¹³ Abbott Æneid amongst Antony Atheisme Augustus Bacon quotes Bacon's Essays better Brutus Businesse Caesar called Caracalla Cassius cause Certainly Cicero Claudius Commodus commonly Counsell Counsellours Cunning Custome danger death Dio Cassius Discourse Domitian doth edition emperor empire England Envy Epimetheus Estate Faction Fame farre father favour Fortune French Frend Frendship Galba Garden generall Goodnesse Greatnesse Greek hath Henry Henry VII himselfe Honour Iudge Iudgement Julius Caesar Jupiter king Latin Latin Version likewise Lives Livia Love Lucullus maketh Man's Selfe married matter meaning Men's Messalina Minde Naturall Nature Nero Nobility Number party Persons Place Plantation Plutarch Pompey Princes Proverbs regards reign Religion Reynolds Riches Roman Rome saith Sejanus Seneca sense Septimius Severus Shakespeare shew side speake Speech Subiects Suetonius Sutes Tacitus Themistocles Therfore Things thought Tiberius tion unto Usury Vertue Vespasian Vitellius Warre wife wise Wisedome word
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Page 199 - Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 52 - ... 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. Let him, upon his removes from one place to another, procure recommendation to some person of quality residing in the place whither he removeth ; that he may use his favour in those things he desireth to see or know.
Page 152 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Page 293 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 101 - I like a plantation in a pure soil, that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others. For else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation. Planting of countries is like planting of woods, for you must make account to lose almost twenty years profit, and expect your recompense in the end.
Page 221 - Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Page 102 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 20 - ... to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, When a man should marry? — 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Page 19 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 3 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.