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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on ... - Page 205
by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 343 pages
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The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...they judg by their own feeling, they cannot find it : but if they think with themfelves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...they are, then they are happy, as it were by report i when pethaps they find the contrary within. For they ate the tirft that find their own griefs •,...
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Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin ...

Francis Bacon - 1720 - 556 pages
...other Men think of them, and how gladly they would change Conditions with them, tj\en, and not till then, they are happy as it were by Report; when perhaps they find the contrary within. For $ey are the firft of all fenfibje of their. own Of MAGISTRACIES own Griefs, tho' they are the laft...
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Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin ...

Francis Bacon - 1720 - 528 pages
...other Men think of them, and how gladly they would change Conditions with them, then, arid not till then, they are happy as it were by Report ; when perhaps they rind the contrary within. For they ape the firft of all fenfible of thei* own Of own Griefs, tho' they...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St ...

Francis Bacon, Peter Shaw - 1733 - 658 pages
...themfelves, what other Men think of them ; and how willingly others would change Conditions with them ; it is then they are happy, as it were by Report: when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the firft that find their own Misfortunes ; but the laft that find their own Faults. Men in high Station...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind:...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it : but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health, either of body or...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it : but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health, either of body or...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as...in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind:...
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