Essay

 1        3|       sword into the people’s hands; and the like; tending to
 2        3| monstrous, to put it into the hands of the common people. Let
 3        4|  saith he) take good at God’s hands, and not be content to take
 4       11|       not only bind thine own hands, or, thy servants’ hands,
 5       11|      hands, or, thy servants’ hands, from taking, but bind the
 6       11|     from taking, but bind the hands of suitors also, from offering.
 7       14|      be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may
 8       14|    Briareus, with his hundred hands, to come in to his aid.
 9       19|    matter back into their own hands, and make it appear to the
10       20|    Briareus, with his hundred hands; first to watch, and then
11       22|     affairs pass such a man’s hands, he crooketh them to his
12       28|     to keep the plough in the hands of the owners, and not mere
13       32|  government, let it be in the hands of one, assisted with some
14       33|     do greatly enrich, if the hands be well chosen, that are
15       38|       an one, as hath had his hands formerly in blood. But Machiavel
16       39|       s fortune is in his own hands. Faber quisque fortunae
17       40|   realm, or state, into a few hands. For the usurer being at
18       40|     nor put them into unknown hands.~If it be objected that
19       54|    their affairs; their right hands, as we call them. The next
20       55|     may be accounted the left hands of courts; persons that