Essay

 1        6|     hiding and veiling of a man’s self. The first, closeness, reservation,
 2        6|          the discovery of a man’s self, by the tracts of his countenance,
 3        6|         is, to reserve to a man’s self a fair retreat. For if a
 4        8|    liberty, especially in certain self–pleasing and humorous minds,
 5        9|          the comparing of a man’s self; and where there is no comparison,
 6       10|          intelligence, is a man’s self; certainly the lover is
 7       11|           lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is
 8       11|           is good to side a man’s self, whilst he is in the rising,
 9       22|             OF WISDOM FOR A MAN’S SELF~An ant is a wise creature
10       22|       referring of all to a man’s self, is more tolerable in a
11       22|          is the nature of extreme self–lovers, as they will set
12       22|       affairs.~Wisdom for a man’s self is, in many branches thereof,
13       22|      wings they thought, by their self–wisdom, to have pinioned.~ ~
14       26|       desire to sequester a man’s self, for a higher conversation:
15       26|          communicating of a man’s self to his friend, works two
16       26|           flatterer as is a man’s self; and there is no such remedy
17       26|       against flattery of a man’s self, as the liberty of a friend.
18       26|            The calling of a man’s self to a strict account, is
19       31|       know not. Speech of a man’s self ought to be seldom, and
20       39|     certain deliveries of a man’s self, which have no name. The
21       39|          the first within a man’s self, the latter in others towards
22       39|      doubt it is much, in a man’s self.~ ~
23       46|           a third than by a man’s self. Letters are good, when
24       50|          of a trueness to a man’s self, with end to make use of
25       51|     himself cheap. To apply one’s self to others, is good; so it
26       52|   archflatterer, which is a man’s self; and wherein a man thinketh
27       52|          scorn. To praise a man’s self, cannot be decent, except
28       53|          in that, wherein a man’s self hath any perfection. For
29       54| extinguished by declaring a man’s self in his ends, rather to seek
30       56|         time; and to make a man’s self believe, that the opportunity