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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9068" xml:space="preserve">THe delight which Men have in Popularity, Fame, Honor, Submiſsion, and
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              Experiment
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              Solitary,
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              touching the
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              General Sym-
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              pathy of Mens
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              Spirits.</note>
            Subjection of other Mens Mindes, Wills, or Affections (although theſe things
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            may be deſired for other ends) ſeemeth to be athing in it ſelf, without con-
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            templation of conſequence, grateſul, and agreeable to the Nature of Man.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9069" xml:space="preserve">This thing (ſurely) is not without ſome ſignification, as if all Spirits and
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            Souls of Men came forth out of one Divine Limbus; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9070" xml:space="preserve">elſe, why be Men ſo
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            much affected with that which others think or ſay? </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9071" xml:space="preserve">The beſt temper of
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            Mindes, deſireth good Name and true Honor; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9072" xml:space="preserve">the lighter, Popularity and
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            Applauſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9073" xml:space="preserve">the more depraved, Subjection and Tyranny; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9074" xml:space="preserve">as is ſeen in great
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            Conquerors and Troublers of the World, and yet more in Arch-Herencks,
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            for the introducing of new Doctrines, is like wiſe an affectation oſ Tyranny
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            over the Underſtandings and Beliefs of Men.</s>
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