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Essays

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W. L. Allison, 1888 - 203 pages

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Contents

PAGB	1

OF REVENGE	59

OF ADVERSITY	70

OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION	83

OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN	92

OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE	96

OF ENVY	101

OF LOVE	111

OF SEEMING WISE	294

OF FRIENDSHIP PAGE	302

OF EXPENSE	320

OF THE TRUE	327

OF REGIMEN OF HEALTH	348

OF SUSPICION	354

OF DISCOURSE	368

OF PLANTATIONS	377

OF GREAT PLACE	116

OF BOLDNESS	136

OF GOODNESS AND GOODNESS OF NATURE	139

OF NOBILITY	147

OF SEDITIONS AND TROUBLES	152

OF ATHEISM	169

OF SUPERSTITION	183

OF TRAVEL	209

OF EMPIRE	215

OF COUNSEL	224

OF DELAYS	234

OF CUNNING	241

OF WISDOM FOR A MANS SELF	260

OF INNOVATIONS	264

OF DISPATCH	288

OF RICHES	392

OF PROPHECIES	403

OF AMBITION	410

OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS	416

OF CUSTOM AND EDUCATION	423

OF FORTUNE	437

OF YOUTH AND	449

OF BEAUTY	459

OF GARDENS	468

OF NEGOTIATING	477

OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS	493

OF PRAISE	555

OF VAIN GLORY	568

16	582

92	613

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admiration advantage ancient ANNOTATIONS Antinomians ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error Essay evil false favour fear feel give goeth hath Helots honour human important infallible instance judge judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons Plut Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman-catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus Themistocles things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue vulgar wisdom wise words

Bibliographic information

Title	Essays
Author	Francis Bacon
Editor	Joseph Devey
Contributor	Joseph Devey
Publisher	W. L. Allison, 1888
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	5 Feb 2019
Length	203 pages

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