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

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            litick, eloquent, charitable, and the Example of Patience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9899" xml:space="preserve">Eli the Prieſt lived ninety
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            eight years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9900" xml:space="preserve">a corpulent man, calm of diſpoſition, and indulgent to his children. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9901" xml:space="preserve">But
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            Elizæus the Prophet may ſeem to have died when he was above an hundred years old;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9902" xml:space="preserve">for he is found to have lived after the aſſumption of Elias ſixty years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9903" xml:space="preserve">and at the time
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            of that aſſumption he was of thoſe years, that the boys mocked him by the name of
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            Bald-head: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9904" xml:space="preserve">a man vehement and ſevere, and of an auſtere life, and a contemner of
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            riches. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9905" xml:space="preserve">Alſo @ſaiah the Prophet ſeemeth to have been an hundred years old: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9906" xml:space="preserve">for he is
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            found to have exerciſed the Function of a Prophet ſeventy years together, the years both
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            of his beginning to propheſie and of his death being uncertain: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9907" xml:space="preserve">a man of an admirable
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            eloquence, an Evangelical Prophet, full of the promiſes of God of the New Teſtament,
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            as a Bottle with ſweet Wine.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9909" xml:space="preserve">Tobias the Elder lived an hundred fifty eight years, the Younger, an hundred twen-
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            ty ſeven: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9910" xml:space="preserve">merciful men, and great alms-givers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9911" xml:space="preserve">It ſeems, in the time of the Cap-
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            tivity, many of the Jews who returned out of Babylon were of great years, ſeeing they
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            could remember both Temples, (there being no leſs than ſeventy years betwixt them)
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            and wept for the unlikeneſs of them. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9912" xml:space="preserve">Many ages after that, in the time of our Saviour,
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            lived old Simeon, to the age of ninety; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9913" xml:space="preserve">a devoutman, and full both of hope and expe-
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            ctation. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9914" xml:space="preserve">Into the ſame time alſo fell Anna the Propheteſs, who could not poſſibly be
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            leſs than an hundred years old; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9915" xml:space="preserve">for ſhe had been ſeven years a wife, about eighty
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            four years a widow, beſides the years of her virginity, and the time that ſhe lived after
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            her Prophecy of our Saviour: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9916" xml:space="preserve">She was an holy woman, and paſſed her days in faſtings
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            and prayers.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9918" xml:space="preserve">The long Lives of Men mentioned in Heathen Authors have no great certainty in
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            them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9919" xml:space="preserve">both for the intermixture of Fables, whereunto thoſe kind of relations were
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            very prone, and for their falſe calculation of years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9920" xml:space="preserve">Certainly of the Ægyptians we
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            find nothing of moment in thoſe works that are extant as touching long Life, for their
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            Kings which reigned longeſt did not exceed fifty or five and fifty years, which is no
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            great matter, ſeeing many at this day attain to thoſe years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9921" xml:space="preserve">But the Arcadian Kings
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            are fabulouſly reported to have lived very long. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9922" xml:space="preserve">Surely that Country was Mountainous,
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            full of flocks of Sheep, and brought forth moſt wholſome food; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9923" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding,
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            ſeeing Pan was their god, we may conceive that all things about them were Panick and
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            vain, and ſubject to fables.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9925" xml:space="preserve">Numa King of the @omans lived to eighty years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9926" xml:space="preserve">a man peaceable, contemplative,
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            and much devoted to Religion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9927" xml:space="preserve">Marcus Valerius Corvinus ſaw an hundred years
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            complete, there being betwixt his firſt and ſixth Conſulſhip forty ſix years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9928" xml:space="preserve">a man va-
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            lorous, affable, popular, and always fortunate.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9930" xml:space="preserve">Solon of Athens, the Law giver, and one of the ſeven Wiſe-men, lived above eighty
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            years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9931" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high courage, but popular, and affected to his Country; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9932" xml:space="preserve">alſo learn-
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            ed, given to pleaſures and a ſoft kind of life. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9933" xml:space="preserve">Epimenides the Cretian is reported to
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            have lived an hundred fifty ſeven years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9934" xml:space="preserve">the matter is mix’d with a prodigious Relation;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9935" xml:space="preserve">for fifty ſeven of thoſe years he is ſaid to have ſlept in a Cave. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9936" xml:space="preserve">Half an age after Xeno-
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            phon the Colophonian lived an hundred and two years, or rather more: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9937" xml:space="preserve">for at the age of
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            twenty five years he left his Country, ſeventy ſeven complete years he travelled, and
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            after that returned; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9938" xml:space="preserve">but how long he lived after his return appears not; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9939" xml:space="preserve">a man no leſs
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            wandring in mind than in body, for his name was changed for the madneſs of his opi-
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            nions from Xenophanes to Xenomanes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9940" xml:space="preserve">a man no doubt of a vaſt conceit, and that minded
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            nothing but Infinitum.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9942" xml:space="preserve">Anacreon the Poet lived eighty years and ſome what better: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9943" xml:space="preserve">a manlaſcivious, vo-
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            luptuous, and given to drink. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9944" xml:space="preserve">Pindarus the Theban lived to eighty years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9945" xml:space="preserve">a Poet of
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            an high fancy, ſingular in his conceits, and a great adorer of the gods. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9946" xml:space="preserve">Sophocles the
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            Athenian attained to the like age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9947" xml:space="preserve">alofty Tragick Poet, given over wholly to Writing,
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            and neglectful of his Family.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9949" xml:space="preserve">Artaxerxes King of Perſia lived ninety four years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9950" xml:space="preserve">a man of a dull wit, averſe to the
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            diſpatch of buſineſs, deſirous of glory, but rather of eaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9951" xml:space="preserve">At the ſame time lived Age-
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            ſilaus King of sparta to eighty four years of age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9952" xml:space="preserve">a moderate Prince, as being a Phi-
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            loſopher among Kings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9953" xml:space="preserve">but not withſtanding ambitious, and a Warriour, and no leſs ſtout
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            in war than in buſineſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9955" xml:space="preserve">Gorgias the Sicilian was an hundred and eight years old; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9956" xml:space="preserve">a Rhetorician, and a
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            great boaſter of his faculty, one that taught Youth for profit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9957" xml:space="preserve">he had ſeen </s>
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