Essay

  1        1|                One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum
  2        2|              upon death, and by their great preparations, made it appear
  3        3|            the point controverted, is great, but it is driven to an
  4        3|               it is driven to an over–great subtilty, and obscurity;
  5        3|             sword is to be drawn with great circumspection in cases
  6        3|              and other furies. It was great blasphemy, when the devil
  7        5|              sailed the length of the great ocean, in an earthen pot
  8        6|             of politics, that are the great dissemblers.~Tacitus saith,
  9        6|              of his countenance, is a great weakness and betraying;
 10        6|              politic; except it be in great and rare matters. And therefore
 11        6|             should be out of use.~The great advantages of simulation
 12        8|               they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue
 13        8|               the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have
 14        8|           some talk, Such an one is a great rich man, and another except
 15        8|             to it, Yea, but he hath a great charge of children; as if
 16        9|               or a lame man, did such great matters; affecting the honor
 17        9|               joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils,
 18        9|            extinguish envy than for a great person to preserve all other
 19        9|            while they are showing how great they are, either by outward
 20        9|            purpose, the wiser sort of great persons, bring in ever upon
 21        9|               men, when they grow too great. And therefore it is a bridle
 22        9|      therefore it is a bridle also to great ones, to keep them within
 23        9|             envy upon the minister be great, when the cause of it in
 24       10|         observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof
 25       10|             of love: which shows that great spirits, and great business,
 26       10|               that great spirits, and great business, do keep out this
 27       10|          times of weakness; which are great prosperity, and great adversity;
 28       10|             are great prosperity, and great adversity; though this latter
 29       11|                                    OF GREAT PLACE~Men in great place
 30       11|                 OF GREAT PLACE~Men in great place are thrice servants:
 31       11|               age to scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow
 32       11|              faults. Certainly men in great fortunes are strangers to
 33       11|               and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding star;
 34       12|              body; men that undertake great cures, and perhaps have
 35       12|               when they have promised great matters, and failed most
 36       12|              ado. Certainly to men of great judgment, bold persons are
 37       12|           laughter, doubt you not but great boldness is seldom without
 38       12|             them, except they be very great.~OF GOODNESS & GOODNESS
 39       12|             with little means as with great; for otherwise, in feeding
 40       12|               fittest timber, to make great pontics of; like to knee
 41       13|            tributes, more cheerful. A great and potent nobility, addeth
 42       13|               when nobles are not too great for sovereignty nor for
 43       14|               for that shows the envy great, as Tacitus saith; conflata
 44       14|           motion. And therefore, when great ones in their own particular
 45       14|            the danger is imminent and great. For the rebellions of the
 46       14|       whereupon they rise, be in fact great or small: for they are the
 47       14|         timendi non item. Besides, in great oppressions, the same things
 48       14|          otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve. And
 49       14|           trades of usury, ingrossing great pasturages, and the like.~
 50       14|         discontent, the danger is not great; for common people are of
 51       14|       evaporate (so it be without too great insolency or bravery), is
 52       14|        imperio militibus; a speech of great despair for the soldiers.
 53       14|           events, not be without some great person, one or rather more,
 54       14|         correspondence with the other great men in the state; or else
 55       15|             name of atheists. But the great atheists, indeed are hypocrites;
 56       16|              saith he) I had rather a great deal, men should say, there
 57       16|        doctrine of the Schoolmen bare great sway, that the Schoolmen
 58       17|              state and pleasure, near great cities; armories; arsenals;
 59       17|                to another; which is a great adamant of acquaintance.
 60       17|               all kinds, which are of great name abroad; that he may
 61       18|             by standing at a stay, in great. We see also that kings
 62       18|      melancholy; as did Alexander the Great; Diocletian; and in our
 63       18|        princes’ business are many and great; but the greatest difficulty,
 64       18|       towardness, by Constantinus the Great, his father, was in like
 65       18|               when they are proud and great, there is also danger from
 66       18|         except it be, where they have great and potent heads; or where
 67       19|               hath made it one of the great names of his blessed Son:
 68       19|               of England, who, in his great business, imparted himself
 69       20|           commit the beginnings of an great actions to Argus, with his
 70       21|              And certainly there is a great difference, between a cunning
 71       21|             near it. It is a thing of great patience, but yet of much
 72       22|               certainly, men that are great lovers of themselves, waste
 73       22|          shall carry things against a great good of the master’s. And
 74       22|           overthrow of their master’s great and important affairs. And
 75       24|          reference to the person, are great wastes of time; and though
 76       25|              to bear it by speaking a great word, and being peremptory;
 77       26|          magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered;
 78       26|              observe, how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set
 79       26|      friendship, whereof we speak: so great, as they purchase it, many
 80       26|            Pompey (after surnamed the Great) to that height, that Pompey
 81       26|           thereat, and began to speak great, Pompey turned upon him
 82       26|              seemeth his favor was so great, as Antonius, in a letter
 83       26|               war, he had made him so great. With Tiberius Caesar, Sejanus
 84       26|            goddess, in respect of the great dearness of friendship,
 85       26|               own felicity (though as great as ever happened to mortal
 86       26|             tell them of them; to the great damage both of their fame
 87       28|            could make a small town, a great city. These words (holpen
 88       28|          which can make a small state great, and yet cannot fiddle;
 89       28|           side, there will be found a great many, that can fiddle very
 90       28|            able to make a small state great, as their gift lieth the
 91       28|             the other way; to bring a great and flourishing estate,
 92       28|          thereof. An argument fit for great and mighty princes to have
 93       28|               is compared, not to any great kernel or nut, but to a
 94       28|          spread. So are there states, great in territory, and yet not
 95       28|              to be the foundations of great monarchies.~Walled towns,
 96       28|               are the examples of the great odds, between number and
 97       28|            army; and so there will be great population, and little strength.
 98       28|        splendor and magnificence, and great retinues and hospitality,
 99       28| Nebuchadnezzar’s tree of monarchy, be great enough to bear the branches
100       28|               boughs were becomen too great for their stem, they became
101       28|           compass of Spain, is a very great body of a tree; far above
102       28|               vigor. Therefore it was great advantage, in the ancient
103       28|             it at this day, though in great declination. Of Christian
104       28|         limits of their empire, to be great honor to their generals,
105       28|           that no estate expect to be great, that is not awake upon
106       28|             left that way. We see the great effects of battles by sea.
107       28|               commands the seal is at great liberty, and may take as
108       28|            many times nevertheless in great straits. Surely, at this
109       28|            dowries of this kingdom of Great Britain) is great; both
110       28|          kingdom of Great Britain) is great; both because most of the
111       28|               of both Indies seems in great part, but an accessory to
112       28|           style of emperor, which the great kings of the world after
113       28|                upon their return; the great donatives and largesses,
114       28|              a man’s body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths,
115       29|              of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity
116       29|              giveth it for one of the great precepts of health and lasting,
117       31|           religion, matters of state, great persons, any man’s present
118       32|               rice, likewise cometh a great increase, and it is a kind
119       32|            they are, cannot but yield great profit. Soap–ashes likewise,
120       32|             in penury. It hath been a great endangering to the health
121       33|            disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real
122       33|             man, cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody
123       33|          might seem to be some use of great riches? But then you will
124       33|         always in fact. For certainly great riches, have sold more men,
125       33|              of riches; for it is our great mother’s blessing, the earth’
126       33|            slow. And yet where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry,
127       33|              of any man in my time; a great grazier, a great sheep–master,
128       33|              time; a great grazier, a great sheep–master, a great timber
129       33|               a great sheep–master, a great timber man, a great collier,
130       33|         master, a great timber man, a great collier, a great corn–master,
131       33|               man, a great collier, a great corn–master, a great lead–
132       33|                a great corn–master, a great lead–man, and so of iron,
133       33|           riches, and very easily, to great riches. For when a man’s
134       33|               as invention, he may do great matters; especially if the
135       33|         certain, shall hardly grow to great riches; and he that puts
136       33|               are not restrained, are great means to enrich; especially
137       33|               prosper best in both. A great state left to an heir, is
138       34|   accomplished in the sending of that great fleet, being the greatest
139       34|            the globe of the earth had great parts beyond the Atlantic,
140       34|          third and last (which is the great one) is, that almost all
141       35|              his spurs. There is also great use of ambitious men, in
142       35|              remedy against ambitious great–ones. For when the way of
143       35|            the ambition to prevail in great things, than that other,
144       35|            stirring in business, than great in dependences. He that
145       35|              amongst able men, hath a great task; but that is ever good
146       36|        Dancing to song, is a thing of great state and pleasure. I understand
147       36|            catches, anthem–wise, give great pleasure. Turning dances
148       36|          without noise, are things of great beauty and pleasure; for
149       36|         strangely, and makes it, with great pleasure, to desire to see,
150       36|             spangs, as they are of no great cost, so they are of most
151       36|             steam and heat, things of great pleasure and refreshment.
152       37|               him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for
153       37|            thick shoes. For it breeds great perfection, if the practice
154       37|              nature will lay buried a great time, and yet revive, upon
155       38|        profess, protest, engage, give great words, and then do, just
156       38|               simple and separate, be great, the force of custom copulate
157       38|             exaltation. Certainly the great multiplication of virtues
158       40|            not he still, but would in great part be employed upon merchandizing;
159       40|               so well, if he sit at a great rent; so the merchant cannot
160       40|           trade so well, if he sit at great usury. The third is incident
161       40|              will ensue, presently, a great stand of trade. The second
162       41|              that have much heat, and great and violent desires and
163       42|              persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were
164       42|              accomplished, but not of great spirit; and study rather
165       42|             Persia, were all high and great spirits; and yet the most
166       43|            that upon the matter, in a great wit, deformity is an advantage
167       43|           countries) were wont to put great trust in eunuchs; because
168       44|           have, and that suddenly, as great diversity of heat and cold
169       44|         overflowing; too far off from great cities, which may hinder
170       44|              dear; where a man hath a great living laid together, and
171       44|              to be on both sides of a great and stately tower, in the
172       44|                for that striketh up a great heat in summer, and much
173       45|           alley will be long, and, in great heat of the year or day,
174       45|         hedges, at either end of this great enclosure; not at the hither
175       45|             of the ground, within the great hedge, I leave it to variety
176       45|             For fountains, they are a great beauty and refreshment;
177       45|           cost. But it is nothing for great princes, that for the most
178       47|             we many times see between great personages. Likewise glorious
179       47|               men, many times, are in great favor; for they are officious,
180       47|           answerable to that, which a great person himself professeth (
181       47|           boldly of those that are so great with them, and thereby wound
182       48|                Secrecy in suits, is a great mean of obtaining; for voicing
183       48|        thought so easy a request to a great person, as his letter; and
184       49|            little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little,
185       50|           govern his estate, or for a great person to govern his proceedings,
186       50|              rising, must adhere; but great men, that have strength
187       51|               had need have exceeding great parts of virtue; as the
188       51|             gains come thick, whereas great, come but now and then.
189       51|                that small matters win great commendation, because they
190       51|           whereas the occasion of any great virtue, cometh but on festivals.
191       51|              how can a man comprehend great matters, that breaketh his
192       52|             in civility, to kings and great persons, laudando praecipere,
193       53|        AEtolians, There are sometimes great effects, of cross lies;
194       53|       sharpeneth another. In cases of great enterprise upon charge and
195       54|             The next are duces belli, great leaders in war; such as
196       54|          negotiis pares; such as have great places under princes, and
197       55|            taken, combination, power, great counsel, then is the virtue
198       55|            whatsoever introduceth any great alteration, or dangerous
199       55|             concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. And let
200       57|              and never at a stay. The great winding–sheets, that bury
201       57|             As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely
202       57|              people alive. As for the great burnings by lightnings,
203       57|         things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him
204       57|               that those zeals do any great effects, nor last long;
205       57|          argument. It may be, Plato’s great year, if the world should
206       57|         weathers come about again; as great frosts, great wet, great
207       57|               again; as great frosts, great wet, great droughts, warm
208       57|              great frosts, great wet, great droughts, warm winters,
209       57|         judgment can give stay, to so great revolutions.~When the religion
210       57|               they do not produce any great alterations in states; except
211       57|            that hemisphere; or of the great continents that are upon
212       57|           breaking and shivering of a great state and empire, you may
213       57|             be sure to have wars. For great empires, while they stand,
214       57|           Almaigne, after Charles the Great, every bird taking a feather;
215       57|               if it should break. The great accessions and unions of
216       57|              over–power, it is like a great flood, that will be sure
217       57|             people; but when there be great shoals of people, which
218       58|              and never at a stay. The great winding–sheets, that bury
219       58|             As for conflagrations and great droughts, they do not merely
220       58|              people alive. As for the great burnings by lightnings,
221       58|         things; traducing Gregory the Great, that he did what in him
222       58|               that those zeals do any great effects, nor last long;
223       58|          argument. It may be, Plato’s great year, if the world should
224       58|         weathers come about again; as great frosts, great wet, great
225       58|               again; as great frosts, great wet, great droughts, warm
226       58|              great frosts, great wet, great droughts, warm winters,
227       58|         judgment can give stay, to so great revolutions.~When the religion
228       58|               they do not produce any great alterations in states; except
229       58|            that hemisphere; or of the great continents that are upon
230       58|           breaking and shivering of a great state and empire, you may
231       58|             be sure to have wars. For great empires, while they stand,
232       58|           Almaigne, after Charles the Great, every bird taking a feather;
233       58|               if it should break. The great accessions and unions of
234       58|              over–power, it is like a great flood, that will be sure
235       58|             people; but when there be great shoals of people, which