Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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              <pb o="9" file="0029" n="29" rhead="FRANCIS Lord BACON."/>
            a Man on, and allure him, to ſpeak upon ſuch a ſubject, as
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            wherein he was peculiarly Skilful, and would delight to ſpeak.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s310" xml:space="preserve">And, for Himſelf, he contemned no Mans Obſervations,
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            but would light his Torch at every mans Candle.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s312" xml:space="preserve">His Opinions and Aſſertions were, for the moſt part, Bin-
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            ding, and not contradicted by any; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s313" xml:space="preserve">Rather like Oracles, than
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            Diſcourſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s314" xml:space="preserve">Which may be imputed, either to the well weigh-
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            ing of his Sentence, by the Skales of Truth, and Reaſon;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s315" xml:space="preserve">Or elſe to the Reverence and Eſtimation, wherein he was
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            commonly had, that no Man would conteſt with him: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s316" xml:space="preserve">So
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            that there was no Argumentation, or Pro and Con (as they
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            term it) at his Table: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s317" xml:space="preserve">Or if there chanced to be any it was
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            carried with much Submiſſion and Moderation.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s319" xml:space="preserve">I have often obſerved, and ſo have other Men of great
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            account, That if he had occaſion to repeat another Mans Words
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            after him, he had an uſe and faculty to dreſs them in better
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            Veſtments, and Apparel than they had before: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s320" xml:space="preserve">So that the
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            Authour ſhould find his own speech much amended; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s321" xml:space="preserve">and
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            yet the ſubſtance of it ſtill retained: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s322" xml:space="preserve">As if it had been Na-
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            tural to him to uſe good Forms; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s323" xml:space="preserve">As Ovid ſpake of his Fa-
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            culty of Verſifying.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head26" xml:space="preserve">Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s325" xml:space="preserve">When his Office called him, as he was of the Kings Coun-
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            ſel Learned, to charge any Offenders, either in Criminals,
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            or Capitals; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s326" xml:space="preserve">He was never of an Inſulting, or Domineering
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            Nature over them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s327" xml:space="preserve">But alwayes tender Hearted, and carry-
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            ing himſelf dee ently towards the Parties; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s328" xml:space="preserve">(Though it was his
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            Duty, to charge them home:) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s329" xml:space="preserve">‘But yet, as one, that looked up-
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            on the Example, with the Eye of Severity, But upon the Per-
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            ſon, with the Eye of Pitty, and Compaſſion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s330" xml:space="preserve">And in Civil
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            Buſineſs, as he was Counſellor of Eſtate, he had the beſt
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            way of adviſing; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s331" xml:space="preserve">Not engaging his Maſter, in any Precipi-
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            tate or grievous Courſes, but in Moderate and Fair
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            Proceedings: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s332" xml:space="preserve">The King, whom he ſerved, giving him this
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            Teſtimony; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s333" xml:space="preserve">That he ever dealt, in Buſineſſe, </s>
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