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... cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both , and to be secret , without swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that , without ...
... cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both , and to be secret , without swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that , without ...
Page 37
... cunning fashion ; for in that course a man doth but disavow fortune , and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth , and doth teach others to envy him . Lastly , to conclude this part , as we said in the beginning , that the act ...
... cunning fashion ; for in that course a man doth but disavow fortune , and seemeth to be conscious of his own want in worth , and doth teach others to envy him . Lastly , to conclude this part , as we said in the beginning , that the act ...
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... CUNNING . WE take cunning for a. Fortune like Sybilla's offer , at first offereth the commodity at full then consumeth part and part , and still holdeth up the price . LORD BACON'S.
... CUNNING . WE take cunning for a. Fortune like Sybilla's offer , at first offereth the commodity at full then consumeth part and part , and still holdeth up the price . LORD BACON'S.
Page 85
Francis Bacon. XXIII . OF CUNNING . WE take cunning for a sinister , or crooked wis- dom , and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man , not only in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be ...
Francis Bacon. XXIII . OF CUNNING . WE take cunning for a sinister , or crooked wis- dom , and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man , not only in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be ...
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actions Æsop affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar better beware body bold Cæsar cause cern certainly Cicero cometh command common commonly coun counsel counsellors court cunning custom danger death discourse dissimulation doth England envy ESSAYS fair fame favour fear fortune FRANCIS BACON fruit Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath heart honour hurt JOHN SHARPE judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind king labour less likewise maketh man's matter means men's ment mind motion nature ness never nobility noble opinion party persons plantation pleasure Pompey princes profanum religion rest RICHARD WESTALL riches Romans secrecy secret seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimus Severus servants side sometimes sort speak speech superstition sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tion tree true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius whereby wherein whereof wise