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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head24" xml:space="preserve">THE
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          LIFE
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            <emph style="sc">Right</emph>
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          FRANCIS BACON</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">FRANCIS BACON the Glory, of his
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            Age and Nation; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s71" xml:space="preserve">The Adorner, and Orna-
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            ment of Learning; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">Was born in York-houſe
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            or York-Place, in the Strand, On the 22th,
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            Day of January; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s73" xml:space="preserve">in the Year of our Lord, 1560.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s74" xml:space="preserve">His Father was that famous Councellor to Queen Elizabeth; </s>
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            The ſecond Prop of the Kingdom in his Time, Sir Nicholas
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            Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Eng-
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            land; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s76" xml:space="preserve">a Lord of known Prudence, Sufficiency, Moderation,
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            and Integrity. </s>
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            ters of Sir Anthony Cook; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s78" xml:space="preserve">unto whom the Erudition, of
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            King Edward the Sixth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s79" xml:space="preserve">had been committed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s80" xml:space="preserve">A choyce
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            Lady, and Eminent for Piety, Vertue, and Learning; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s81" xml:space="preserve">Being
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            exquiſitely skilled, for a Woman, in the Greek, and Latine,
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            Tongues. </s>
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