Essay

 1        1|             make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For
 2        2|             it appear more fearful. Better saith he qui finem vitae
 3        3|          And certainly it is little better, when atheists, and profane
 4        3|            darkness; and what is it better, to make the cause of religion
 5        4|             man, for loving himself better than me? And if any man
 6        4|          the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he)
 7        5|           Dei. This would have done better in poesy, where transcendences
 8        6|             fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of
 9        9|      because when his sacrifice was better accepted, there was no body
10        9|          and afterwards overcome it better; whereas contrariwise, persons
11       11|             towards men, are little better than good dreams, except
12       11|          And it showeth some to the better, and some to the worse.
13       12|     mischievous, wretched thing; no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness
14       12|            cock a gem, who would be better pleased, and happier, if
15       13|            in employing them, and a better slide into their business;
16       14|            and broken estate in the better sort, be joined with a want
17       14| discontentments: for there is not a better provision against them.
18       15|        without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could
19       16|             OF SUPERSTITION~It were better to have no opinion of God
20       17|        comedies, such whereunto the better sort of persons do resort;
21       18|           his other son, did little better; who died indeed of sickness,
22       19|            act, of counsel. It were better that in causes of weight,
23       19|     business for the counsel, it is better to choose indifferent persons,
24       20|           forced them. Nay, it were better, to meet some dangers half
25       21|          more.~And because it works better, when anything seemeth to
26       23|         shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
27       25|              for certainly you were better take for business, a man
28       26|          till his wife had dreamt a better dream. And it seemeth his
29       26|          not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statua,
30       26|            is well (that is to say, better, perhaps, than if he asked
31       28|         with the vulgar, deserve no better name than fiddling; being
32       28|           any other come, that hath better iron, than you, he will
33       28|         speak of, hath been nowhere better seen, than by comparing
34       28|        little idle, and love danger better than travail. Neither must
35       30|         them? Therefore there is no better way, to moderate suspicions,
36       32|         plants, that they may see a better condition than their own,
37       33|         RICHES~I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue.
38       33|           virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the
39       33|            cunningly, that would be better chapmen, and the like practices,
40       33|            on him, if he be not the better stablished in years and
41       36|             have such things, it is better they should be graced with
42       39|         remover (the French hath it better, entreprenant, or remuant);
43       39|        Fortune; for so they may the better assume them: and, besides,
44       40|         make forth to that which is better, we meet not with that which
45       40|           the answer is, that it is better to mitigate usury, by declaration,
46       41|             stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
47       41|             dispositions which have better grace in youth, than in
48       42|          think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but
49       44|          cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of the uniformity
50       46|         NEGOTIATING~It is generally better to deal by speech than by
51       46|        choice of instruments, it is better to choose men of a plainer
52       46|           their prescription. It is better to sound a person, with
53       46|          some short question. It is better dealing with men in appetite,
54       47|          odds in sufficiency, it is better to take with the more passable,
55       48|          depraving or disabling the better deserver. In suits which
56       48|           but otherwise, a man were better rise in his suit; for he,
57       50|        strength in themselves, were better to maintain themselves indifferent,
58       52|        early, it shall be to him no better than a curse. Too much magnifying
59       53|           those arts, there is none better than that which Plinius
60       56|      bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin
61       57|            life. Surely there is no better way, to stop the rising
62       58|            life. Surely there is no better way, to stop the rising