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... hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes , set down rather signi- 66 ficantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . " The word is late , but the thing is ancient ; for " Seneca's epistles to Lucilius , if you mark them ...
... hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes , set down rather signi- 66 ficantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . " The word is late , but the thing is ancient ; for " Seneca's epistles to Lucilius , if you mark them ...
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... hath not been happy : " but yet it seems that he had stored his mind with a collection of these " Mucrones Verborum , " as , for his recreation in his sickness in the year preceding his death , he fanned the old , and dictated what he ...
... hath not been happy : " but yet it seems that he had stored his mind with a collection of these " Mucrones Verborum , " as , for his recreation in his sickness in the year preceding his death , he fanned the old , and dictated what he ...
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... hath receiv'd much injury by late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but " not at all enriched the collection ; stuffing it with " tales and sayings , too infacetious for a plough- " man's chimney - corner . And particularly ...
... hath receiv'd much injury by late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but " not at all enriched the collection ; stuffing it with " tales and sayings , too infacetious for a plough- " man's chimney - corner . And particularly ...
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... hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also , that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy : " Extinctus amabi- Same man deady , tur idem . " will be loved IH . OF UNITY IN RELIGION . * Religion ...
... hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also , that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy : " Extinctus amabi- Same man deady , tur idem . " will be loved IH . OF UNITY IN RELIGION . * Religion ...
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... hath wife and children hath given hos- tages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried ...
... hath wife and children hath given hos- tages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried ...
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