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

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            Countries, and a little before his death ſaid, That he had done nothing worthy of
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            blame ſince he was an old man. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9958" xml:space="preserve">Protagoras of Abdera faw ninety years of age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9959" xml:space="preserve">this
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            man was like wiſe a Rhetorician, but profeſſed not ſo much to teach the Liberal Arts, as
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            the Art of Governing Common-wealths and States: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9960" xml:space="preserve">notwithſtanding he was a great
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            wanderer in the world, no leſs than Gorgias. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9961" xml:space="preserve">Iſocrates the Athenian lived ninety
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            eight years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9962" xml:space="preserve">he was a Rhetorician alſo, but an exceeding modeſt man; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9963" xml:space="preserve">one that
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            ſhunned the publick light, and opened his School onely in his own houſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9964" xml:space="preserve">Democritus
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            of Abdera reached to an hundred and nine years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9965" xml:space="preserve">he was a great Philoſopher, and, if
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            ever any man amongſt the Grecians, a true Naturaliſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9966" xml:space="preserve">a Surveyor of many Coun-
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            tries, but much more of Nature; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9967" xml:space="preserve">alſo a diligent ſearcher into Experiments, and (as
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            Ariſtotle objected againſt him) one that followed Similitudes more than the Laws of
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            Arguments. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9968" xml:space="preserve">Diogenes the Sinopean lived ninety years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9969" xml:space="preserve">a man that uſed liberty to-
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            wards others, but tyranny over himſelf: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9970" xml:space="preserve">a courſe diet, and of much patience. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9971" xml:space="preserve">Zeno
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            of Citium lacked but two years of an hundred: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9972" xml:space="preserve">a man of an high mind, and a
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            contemner of other mens opinions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9973" xml:space="preserve">alſo of a great acuteneſs, but yet not trouble-
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            ſome, chuſing rather to take mens minds than to enforce them: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9974" xml:space="preserve">The like whereof after-
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            ward was in Seneca. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9975" xml:space="preserve">Plato the Athenian attained to eighty one years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9976" xml:space="preserve">a man of a great
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            courage, but yet a lover of eaſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9977" xml:space="preserve">in his Notions ſublimed, and of a fancy, neat and
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            delicate in his life, rather calm than merry, and one that carried a kind of Majeſty
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            in his countenance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9978" xml:space="preserve">Theophraſtus the Ereſſian arrived at eighty five years of age; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9979" xml:space="preserve">a
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            man ſweet for his eloquence, ſweet for the variety of his matters, and who ſelected
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            the pleaſant things of Philoſophy, and let the bitter and harſh go. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9980" xml:space="preserve">Carneades of Cy-
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            rene many years after came to the like age of eighty five years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9981" xml:space="preserve">a man of a fluent
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            eloquence, and one who by the acceptable and pleaſant variety of his knowledge de
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            lighted both himſelf and others. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9982" xml:space="preserve">But Orbilius, who lived in Cicero’s time, no Philo-
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            ſopher or Rhetorician, but a Grammarian, attained to an hundred years of age, he was
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            firſt a Souldier, then a Schoolmaſter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9983" xml:space="preserve">a man by nature tart both in his Tongue and Pen,
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            and ſevere towards his Scholars.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9985" xml:space="preserve">Quintus Fabius Maximus was Augur ſixty three years, which ſhewed him to be
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            above eighty years of age at his death; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9986" xml:space="preserve">though it betrue, that in the Augurſhip No-
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            bility was more reſpected then age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9987" xml:space="preserve">a wife man, and a great Deliberator, and in all
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            his proceedings moderate, and not without affability ſevere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9988" xml:space="preserve">Maſiniſſa King of Nu-
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            midia lived ninety years, and being more than eighty five got a ſon: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9989" xml:space="preserve">a daring man, and
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            truſting upon his fortune, who in his youth had taſted of the inconſtancy of Fortune,
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            but in his fucceeding age was conſtantly happy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9990" xml:space="preserve">But Marcus Porcius Cato lived above
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            ninety years of age: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9991" xml:space="preserve">a man of an Iron body and mind; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9992" xml:space="preserve">he had a bitter tongue, and loved
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            to cheriſh factions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9993" xml:space="preserve">he was given to Husbandry, and was to himſelf and his Family a
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            Phyſician.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9995" xml:space="preserve">Terentia Cicero’s wife, lived an hundred and three years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9996" xml:space="preserve">a woman afflicted with
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            many croffes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9997" xml:space="preserve">firſt, with the baniſh ment of her Husband; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9998" xml:space="preserve">then with the difference
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            betwixt them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9999" xml:space="preserve">laſtly, with his laſt fatal misfortune: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10000" xml:space="preserve">She was alſo oftentimes vexed
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            with the Gout. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10001" xml:space="preserve">Luceia muſt needs exceed an hundred by many years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10002" xml:space="preserve">for it is ſaid
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            that ſhe acted an whole hundred years upon the Stage, at firſt perhaps repreſenting
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            the perſon of ſome young Girl, at laſt of ſome decrepit old Woman. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10003" xml:space="preserve">But Galeria
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            Copiola, a Player alſo and a Dancer, was brought upon the Stage as a Novice, in what
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            year of her age is not known; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10004" xml:space="preserve">but ninety nine years after, at the Dedication
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            of the Theatre by Pompey the Great, ſhe was ſhewn upon the Stage, not now
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            for an Actreſs, but for a Wonder: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10005" xml:space="preserve">neither was this all, for after that, in the So-
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            lemnities for the health and life of Auguſtus, ſhe was ſhewn upon the Stage the
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            third time.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s10007" xml:space="preserve">There was another Actreſs, ſomewhat inferiour in age, but much ſuperiour in
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            dignity, which lived well-near ninety years, I mean Livia Julia Auguſta, wife to
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            Auguſtus Cæſar, and mother to Tiberius. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10008" xml:space="preserve">For if Auguſtus his life were a Play, (as
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            himſelf would have it, whenas upon his death-bed he charged his friends they
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            ſhould give him a Plaudite after he was dead) certainly this Lady was an excellent
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            Actreſs, who could carry it ſo well with her husband by a diffembled obedience,
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            and with her ſon by power and authority: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10009" xml:space="preserve">a woman affable, and yet of a Ma-
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            tronal carriage, pragmatical, and upholding her power. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10010" xml:space="preserve">But Junia, the wife of Caius
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            Caſſius, and ſiſter of Marcus Brutus, was alſo ninety years old; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10011" xml:space="preserve">for ſhe ſurvived
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            the Philippick Battel ſixty four years: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s10012" xml:space="preserve">a magnanimous woman, in her great </s>
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