Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            what the Iſſue, was like to be; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s83" xml:space="preserve">Having had whatſoever Na-
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            ture or Breeding could put into him.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s85" xml:space="preserve">His first and childiſh years were not without ſome Mark of
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            Eminency; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s86" xml:space="preserve">At which time he was indued with that Pregnancy,
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            and Towardlineſs, of wit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s87" xml:space="preserve">As they were Preſages, of that
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            Deep, and Univerſal Apprehenſion, which was manifeſt in
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            him, afterward: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s88" xml:space="preserve">And cauſed him to be taken notice of, by ſeve-
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            ral Perſons, of Worth and Place; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s89" xml:space="preserve">And eſpecially, by the
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            Queen; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s90" xml:space="preserve">who (as I have been informed) delighted much, then,
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            to confer with him; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s91" xml:space="preserve">And to prove him with Queſtions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s92" xml:space="preserve">un-
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            to whom, he delivered Himſelf, with that Gravity, and Matu-
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            rity, above his years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s93" xml:space="preserve">That Her Majeſty would oſten term
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            him, The young Lord Keeper. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s94" xml:space="preserve">Being asked by the Queen,
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            how old he was? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s95" xml:space="preserve">He anſwered with much diſcretion, being
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            then but a Boy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s96" xml:space="preserve">That he was two years younger than her
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            Majeſties happy Reign; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s97" xml:space="preserve">with which anſwer the Queen was
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            much taken.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s99" xml:space="preserve">At the ordinary years, of Ripeneſs, for the Univerſity; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s100" xml:space="preserve">or
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            rather, ſomething earlier; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s101" xml:space="preserve">he was ſent by his Father, to Tri-
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            nity College, in Cambridge; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s102" xml:space="preserve">To be educated, and bred un-
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            der the Tuition of Doctor John White-Gift, then Maſter
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            of the Colledge; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s103" xml:space="preserve">Afterwards the renowned Arch Biſhop of
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            Canterbury; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s104" xml:space="preserve">a Prelate of the firſt Magnitude of Sanctity,
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            Learning Patience, and Humility; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s105" xml:space="preserve">Under whom, He was ob-
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            ſerved, to have been more, than an Ordinary Proficient, in
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            the ſeveral Arts and Sciences. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s106" xml:space="preserve">Whilſt he was commorant, in
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            the Vniverſity, about 16 years of age, (as his Lordſhip hath
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            been pleaſed to impart unto my ſelf;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s107" xml:space="preserve">be firſt fell into
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            the Diſlike, of the Philoſophy of Ariſtotle. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s108" xml:space="preserve">Not for the
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            Worthleſſeneſs of the Author, to whom he would ey
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            er aſcribe
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            all High Attributes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s109" xml:space="preserve">But for the Vnfruitfulneſs, of the way;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s110" xml:space="preserve">Being a Philoſophy, (as his Lordſhip uſed to ſa
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            y) only
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            ſtrong, for Diſputations, and Contentions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s111" xml:space="preserve">But Barren, of
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            the production of Works, for the Benefit of the Life of Man. </s>
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            In which Mind be continued to his Dying Day.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s114" xml:space="preserve">After he had paſſed, the Circle of the Liberal Arts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s115" xml:space="preserve">His
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            Father thought fit, to frame, and mould him for the Arts of
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            State; </s>
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