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... Fortune , 99 XLI . Of Usury , 101 XLII . Of Youth and Age , 104 XLIII . Of Beauty , 106 XLIV . Of Deformity , 107 XLV . Of Building , 109 XLVI . Of Gardens , 113 XLVII . Of Negociating , 119 XLVIII . Of Followers and Friends , 120 XLIX ...
... Fortune , 99 XLI . Of Usury , 101 XLII . Of Youth and Age , 104 XLIII . Of Beauty , 106 XLIV . Of Deformity , 107 XLV . Of Building , 109 XLVI . Of Gardens , 113 XLVII . Of Negociating , 119 XLVIII . Of Followers and Friends , 120 XLIX ...
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... fortune and merit both have been erminent . And you have planted things that are like to last . I do now publish my Essays ; which , of all my other works , have been most current ; for that , as it seems , they come home to men's ...
... fortune and merit both have been erminent . And you have planted things that are like to last . I do now publish my Essays ; which , of all my other works , have been most current ; for that , as it seems , they come home to men's ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious . For to know much of other men's matters cannot be ... fortunes of others . Neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy . For envy is a ...
... fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious . For to know much of other men's matters cannot be ... fortunes of others . Neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy . For envy is a ...
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... fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth the payment of a debt , but rewards and liberality rather . Again , envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self ; and where there is no comparison , no envy ; and ...
... fortune seemeth but due unto them ; and no man envieth the payment of a debt , but rewards and liberality rather . Again , envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self ; and where there is no comparison , no envy ; and ...
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Page 385 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 3 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 3 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.
Page 385 - And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
Page 186 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 74 - 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 101 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 95 - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them.
Page 32 - For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence, of a better nature than his own could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Page 7 - ... of their children, as thinking they will take best to that which they have most mind to. It is true, that if the affection, or aptness, of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it; but generally the precept is good. Optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo. Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. 8. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are...