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501 51| satiety, maketh himself cheap. To apply one’s self to 502 Glo| stupid, unpolished~Abuse: cheat, deceive~Aculeate: stinging~ 503 35| dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become 504 14| despising of them, many times checks them best; and the going 505 31| scoff, but kept ever royal cheer in his house; the other 506 18| the mind of man, is more cheered and refreshed by profiting 507 29| like. So shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries. 508 26| union strengtheneth and cherisheth any natural action; and 509 14| balancing of trade; the cherishing of manufactures; the banishing 510 32| pineapples, olives, dates, plums, cherries, wild honey, and the like; 511 12| a stay; like a stale at chess, where it is no mate, but 512 32| yields of itself to hand; as chestnuts, walnuts, pineapples, olives, 513 49| swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some 514 50| whereas contrariwise, the chiefest wisdom, is either in ordering 515 7| between brothers, during childhood, which many times sorteth 516 45| banqueting–house, with some chimneys neatly cast, and without 517 25| bent the other down to his chin; Respondes, altero ad frontem 518 36| loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings. Let the music 519 28| some degrees and orders of chivalry; which nevertheless are 520 35| AMBITION~Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that 521 17| he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; 522 33| crafty and naught. As for the chopping of bargains, when a man 523 39| fortunam ejus. So Sylla chose the name of Felix, and not 524 17| consistories ecclesiastic; the churches and monasteries, with the 525 14| dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula regum.~So when any of the 526 45| would have to be perfect circles, without any bulwarks or 527 54| achieved, but not with so good circumstance; he shall purchase more 528 45| either in the bowls or in the cistern; that the water be never 529 26| with it a little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because 530 28| naturalization (which they called jus civitatis), and to grant it in the 531 47| discontent; because they may claim a due. But contrariwise, 532 55| it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, which 533 11| facto, than voice it with claims, and challenges. Preserve 534 19| tribunitious manner; for that is to clamor counsels, not to inform 535 26| wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating 536 3| himself, were in two cross clauses thereof, soundly and plainly 537 3| things, are like the iron and clay, in the toes of Nebuchadnezzar’ 538 28| thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and 539 45| Besides that, it is to be cleansed every day by the hand. Also 540 27| his custom: but he that cleareth by degrees, induceth a habit 541 27| preserved from decay. In clearing of a man’s estate, he may 542 24| will never come out of it clearly. To choose time, is to save 543 6| of their good faith and clearness of dealing, made them almost 544 27| interest. Besides, he that clears at once will relapse; for 545 3| Nebuchadnezzar’s image; they may cleave, but they will not incorporate.~ 546 38| Machiavel knew not of a Friar Clement, nor a Ravillac, nor a Jaureguy, 547 34| swam upon the sea. As for Cleon’s dream, I think it was 548 55| the other side, an ancient clerk, skilful in precedents, 549 55| for that upholds in the client, the reputation of his counsel, 550 26| Persia, That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put 551 30| least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; 552 51| and he that looketh to the clouds, shall not reap. A wise 553 45| especially the matted pink and clove gilliflower. Then the flowers 554 Glo| Affect: like, desire~Antic: clown~Appose: question~Arietation: 555 45| bent, which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth. 556 3| of the fathers, Christ’s coat indeed had no seam, but 557 12| Neither give thou AEsop’s cock a gem, who would be better 558 32| fastest; as swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, geese, house– 559 45| plums in fruit; jennetings, codlins. In August come plums of 560 33| losses. Monopolies, and coemption of wares for re–sale, where 561 14| Extremam (ut perhibent) Coeo Enceladoque sororem~Progenuit.–~ ~ 562 2| adds niceness and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori 563 41| youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. 564 1| falsehoods, is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which 565 55| recapitulate, select, and collate the material points, of 566 18| are elected, not by the collation of the king, or particular 567 17| antiquities and ruins; libraries; colleges, disputations, and lectures, 568 38| copulate and conjoined and collegiate, is far greater. For there 569 33| great timber man, a great collier, a great corn–master, a 570 28| custom of plantation of colonies; whereby the Roman plant 571 Glo| apple–tree: pine~Plantation: colony~Platform: plan~Plausible: 572 45| strawberries; bugloss; columbine; the French marigold, flos 573 45| and in some places, fair columns upon frames of carpenter’ 574 2| about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs 575 14| breaking, of all factions and combinations that are adverse to the 576 29| not be found in one man, combine two of either sort; and 577 39| Serpens nisi serpentem comederit non fit draco. Overt and 578 40| was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore 579 26| these could not supply the comfort of friendship.~It is not 580 38| example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory 581 5| adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle– 582 36| As for angels, it is not comical enough, to put them in anti– 583 37| studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set 584 11| place, as the vantage, and commanding ground. Merit and good works, 585 51| like perpetual letters commendatory, to have good forms. To 586 28| degree; that is, not only jus commercii, jus connubii, jus haereditatis; 587 32| guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.~ ~ 588 44| house, upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither 589 13| rarely any rising, but by a commixture of good and evil arts. But 590 18| the hand with the arrow, Commodus for playing at fence, Caracalla 591 14| subjects; the noblesse and the commonalty. When one of these is discontent, 592 18| they do best temper popular commotions.~For their merchants; they 593 50| often in their mouth Padre commune: and take it to be a sign 594 29| exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth 595 28| The kingdom of heaven is compared, not to any great kernel 596 53| for an bravery stands upon comparisons. They must needs be violent, 597 2| many to die, out of mere compassion to their sovereign, and 598 12| joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions 599 9| triumphing over all opposition or competition; whereas wise men will rather 600 48| gratify the adverse party, or competitor. Surely there is in some 601 26| cure of the disease you complain of, but is unacquainted 602 2| Augustus Caesar died in a compliment; Livia, conjugii nostri 603 28| though not wisely) framed and composed, to that scope and end. 604 18| concerning kings, are in effect comprehended in those two remembrances: 605 Glo| Collect: infer~Compound: compromise~Consent: agreement~Curious: 606 28| revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear 607 25| little very solemnly: magno conatu nugas. It is a ridiculous 608 19| that know it their duty to conceal. It is true there be some 609 40| this only, that usury is a concessum propter duritiem cordis; 610 52| of quality and judgment concur, then it is (as the Scripture 611 14| in tempore foenus,~Hinc concussa fides, et multis utile bellum.~ ~ 612 54| In the first place are conditores imperiorum, founders of 613 28| aids and succors, to their confederates; as it ever was with the 614 18| straightways balance it, either by confederation, or, if need were, by a 615 28| which nevertheless are conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers 616 3| and no less ingenuously confessed; that those which held and 617 6| secret man heareth many confessions. For who will open himself, 618 6| is indeed the virtue of a confessor. And assuredly, the secret 619 19| giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of 620 55| and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity 621 14| great, as Tacitus saith; conflata magna invidia, seu bene 622 29| of them, so pleasing and conformable to the humor of the patient, 623 49| Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take 624 34| second is, that probable conjectures, or obscure traditions, 625 38| force of custom copulate and conjoined and collegiate, is far greater. 626 2| in a compliment; Livia, conjugii nostri memor, vive et vale. 627 40| to suffer it to rage, by connivance.~ ~ 628 28| only jus commercii, jus connubii, jus haereditatis; but also 629 Glo| get~Manage: train~Mate: conquer~Material: business–like~ 630 18| that have been fortunate conquerors, in their first years, it 631 56| that a man should have, as Consalvo was wont to say, telam honoris 632 52| him to perforce, spreta conscientia. Some praises come of good 633 15| Quam volumus licet, patres conscripti, nos amemus, tamen nec numero 634 11| some to the worse. Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset, 635 55| tuum, when the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point 636 50| But I say not that the considerations of factions, is to be neglected. 637 14| It is a thing well to be considered; for the surest way to prevent 638 51| Solomon saith, He that considereth the wind, shall not sow, 639 42| comely but by pardon, and considering the youth, as to make up 640 19| It was truly said, optimi consiliarii mortui: books will speak 641 18| both temper, and distemper, consist of contraries. But it is 642 3| religion of the heathen, consisted rather in rites and ceremonies, 643 17| and hear causes; and so of consistories ecclesiastic; the churches 644 3| seditions; to authorize conspiracies and rebellions; to put the 645 38| achieving of a desperate conspiracy, a man should not rest upon 646 18| for both Constantinus and Constance, his sons, died violent 647 12| reporteth, a Christian boy, in Constantinople, had like to have been stoned, 648 18| died violent deaths; and Constantius, his other son, did little 649 21| of business; which is the constitution of one that hath studied 650 55| Judges must beware of hard constructions, and strained inferences; 651 7| suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo. Younger brothers are commonly 652 26| when he had carried the consulship for a friend of his, against 653 13| there is an equality, the consultations are more indifferent, and 654 26| that height, as when he consulted with Maecenas, about the 655 19| necessary, that he that consulteth what he should do, should 656 33| much is, there are many consume it; and what hath the owner, 657 20| commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still 658 53| feathers of ostentation. Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, 659 29| as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic 660 15| subtlest philosophers. The contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, 661 33| distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. Yet have no abstract nor 662 55| and disguised. Add thereto contentious suits, which ought to be 663 14| which ought to give greatest contentment, are taken in ill sense, 664 45| done of buildings), the contents ought not well to be under 665 12| from other lands, but a continent, that joins to them. If 666 9| envied, when their fortune continueth long. For by that time, 667 40| to the merchants, for the continuing and quickening of trade. 668 3| a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse than a corrupt 669 24| thing, to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. 670 40| usury at a good rate; other contracts not so.~To serve both intentions, 671 49| observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe 672 3| frail men, in some of their contradictions, intend the same thing; 673 18| saith Tacitus) to will contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates 674 18| vehementes, et inter se contrariae. For it is the solecism 675 28| have, in their nature, a contrariety to a military disposition. 676 34| and crafty brains merely contrived and feigned, after the event 677 48| instruments, than these general contrivers of suits; for they are but 678 48| equity, if it be a suit of controversy; or a right of desert, if 679 3| men seek Christ, in the conventicles of heretics, and others, 680 19| Therefore it is good to be conversant in them, specially the books 681 37| fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things, they do 682 11| partaker of God’s rest. Et conversus Deus, ut aspiceret opera 683 45| the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay, 684 51| certainly, there is a kind of conveying, of effectual and imprinting 685 2| quam mors ipsa. Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, 686 32| apothecaries, surgeons, cooks, and bakers. In a country 687 28| Even as you may see in coppice woods; if you leave your 688 38| great, the force of custom copulate and conjoined and collegiate, 689 26| Pythagoras is dark, but true; Cor ne edito; Eat not the heart. 690 55| justus cadens in causa sua coram adversario. The office of 691 14| proverb noteth well, The cord breaketh at the last by 692 45| which yield a most excellent cordial smell. Then the flower of 693 40| concessum propter duritiem cordis; for since there must be 694 45| peach–tree in blossom; the cornelian–tree in blossom; sweet–briar. 695 45| melocotones; nectarines; cornelians; wardens; quinces. In October 696 39| In illo viro tantum robur corporis et animi fuit, ut quocunque 697 38| strive to be burned, with the corpses of their husbands. The lads 698 2| him, Jam Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant. 699 41| virtues of either age, may correct the defects of both; and 700 38| bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom. His instance 701 26| sometime too piercing and corrosive. Reading good books of morality, 702 55| Fons turbatus, et vena corrupta, est justus cadens in causa 703 2| when the whole body is corrupted, and dissolved; when many 704 16| some of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the doctrine 705 1| delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; 706 21| hearts, and transparent countenances. Yet this would be done 707 18| hurt; besides, they are a counterpoise to the higher nobility, 708 12| If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he 709 1| is no vice, that doth so cover a man with shame, as to 710 34| the nature of man, which coveteth divination, thinks it no 711 8| there are some foolish rich covetous men that take a pride, in 712 1| brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces 713 4| repent. But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that 714 45| the stock–gilliflower; the cowslip; flower–delices, and lilies 715 45| strawberries; some with cowslips; some with daisies; some 716 32| special cause of caution. Cram not in people, by sending 717 40| will ensue, if borrowing be cramped. Therefore to speak of the 718 56| wont to say, telam honoris crassiorem. But in all refrainings 719 53| an opinion and fame to be created, either of virtue or greatness, 720 7| schoolmasters and servants) in creating and breeding an emulation 721 15| is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, 722 6| they are commonly vain and credulous withal. For he that talketh 723 3| hath a diverse posture, or cringe by themselves, which cannot 724 18| suppositious. The destruction of Crispus, a young prince of rare 725 22| him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they 726 45| tree, which then blossoms; crocus vernus, both the yellow 727 28| For Solon said well to Croesus (when in ostentation he 728 22| pass such a man’s hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which 729 9| sometimes of purpose to be crossed, and overborne in things 730 12| malignity, turneth but to a crossness, or frowardness, or aptness 731 26| far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces 732 28| that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands personal; the 733 18| Canterbury; who, with their croziers, did almost try it with 734 25| mentum depresso supercilio, crudelitatem tibi non placere. Some think 735 24| to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases. 736 44| richly hanged, glazed with crystalline glass, and a rich cupola 737 28| the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature, in this 738 6| profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except 739 11| which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non 740 56| aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so 741 34| verses:~At domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,~Et nati 742 36| turquets, nymphs, rustics, Cupids, statuas moving, and the 743 44| crystalline glass, and a rich cupola in the midst; and all other 744 44| be three, or five, fine cupolas in the length of it, placed 745 11| sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere. Nay, retire 746 35| overgreat. Another means to curb them, is to balance them 747 12| men that undertake great cures, and perhaps have been lucky, 748 9| blow.~But leaving these curiosities (though not unworthy to 749 9| doth not keep home: Non est curiosus, quin idem sit malevolus.~ 750 49| others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read 751 45| of their blossoms); red currants; gooseberries; rosemary; 752 30| whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly. They dispose 753 55| portion and proper virtue. Cursed (saith the law) is he that 754 33| great riches: there is a custody of them; or a power of dole, 755 26| against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were 756 26| it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. For there 757 49| Schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt 758 45| holly; ivy; bays; juniper; cypress–trees; yew; pine–apple–trees; 759 54| commonwealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Caesar, Ottoman, Ismael. 760 36| and tragical; not nice or dainty. Several quires, placed 761 45| with cowslips; some with daisies; some with red roses; some 762 45| the yellow daffodil; the daisy; the almond–tree in blossom; 763 26| them of them; to the great damage both of their fame and fortune: 764 45| perfume the air. Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers 765 3| by their Mercury rod, do damn and send to hell for ever, 766 40| sixth, that it doth dull and damp all industries, improvements, 767 44| under ground, to avoid all dampishness. And let there be a fountain, 768 37| Like as it was with AEsop’s damsel, turned from a cat to a 769 45| cherry–tree in blossom; the damson and plum–trees in blossom; 770 37| practise with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes. For 771 36| great pleasure. Turning dances into figure, is a childish 772 55| jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not 773 35| but if they be stout and daring, it may precipitate their 774 14| speeches, which fly abroad like darts, and are thought to be shot 775 3| God. For this is but to dash the first table against 776 26| present business, how he dasheth upon other inconvenience. 777 32| walnuts, pineapples, olives, dates, plums, cherries, wild honey, 778 36| graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost. Dancing to song, 779 39| respected, and it be but for her daughters, Confidence and Reputation. 780 5| Testament, if you listen to David’s harp, you shall hear as 781 26| tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out 782 8| they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, 783 26| in respect of the great dearness of friendship, between them 784 14| unworthy persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions 785 18| his sons, died violent deaths; and Constantius, his other 786 19| are rather talked on, than debated. And they run too swift, 787 25| To conclude, there is no decaying merchant, or inward beggar, 788 41| Idem manebat, neque idem decebat. The third is of such, as 789 43| as a sign, which is more deceivable; but as a cause, which seldom 790 45| may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter 791 10| and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the 792 28| sea. The battle of Actium, decided the empire of the world. 793 54| M. Regulus, and the two Decii.~ ~ 794 26| setting. With Julius Caesar, Decimus Brutus had obtained that 795 55| anew, after the judge hath declared his sentence; but, on the 796 54| is best extinguished by declaring a man’s self in his ends, 797 39| towards him. All wise men, to decline the envy of their own virtues, 798 18| bulk of trading, rather decreased.~For their commons; there 799 3| church, by doctrine and decree, princes by their sword, 800 19| appear to the world, that the decrees and final directions (which, 801 26| occultavi; and the whole senate dedicated an altar to Friendship, 802 37| pectus~Vincula qui rupit, dedoluitque semel.~ ~Neither is the 803 55| For many times the things deduced to judgment may be meum 804 21| infinite; and it were a good deed to make a list of them; 805 12| difficulties, or the like; but the deeper sort, to envy and mere mischief. 806 12| to goodness, is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, 807 28| pilfer the victory. And the defeat was easy. When Tigranes 808 49| lawyers’ cases. So every defect of the mind, may have a 809 52| himself, that he is most defective, and is most out of countenance 810 28| confederate had leagues defensive, with divers other states, 811 33| frame them by measure: and defer not charities till death; 812 29| still; for age will not be defied. Beware of sudden change, 813 55| remover of landmarks, when he defineth amiss, of lands and property. 814 32| they may some way help to defray the charge of the plantation ( 815 34| Galba, Tu quoque, Galba, degustabis imperium. In Vespasian’s 816 25| Generally, such men in all deliberations find ease to be of the negative 817 45| gilliflower; the cowslip; flower–delices, and lilies of all natures; 818 26| that speech. Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a 819 45| flowers, which are very delightful to be set under a parlor 820 45| which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, 821 29| rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of 822 25| Gellius saith, Hominem delirum, qui verborum minutiis rerum 823 44| Orator; whereof the former, delivers the precepts of the art, 824 46| a man cannot reasonably demand, except either the nature 825 18| him. The destruction of Demetrius, son to Philip the Second 826 15| school of Leucippus and Democritus and Epicurus. For it is 827 15| accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion; that is, the school 828 49| the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away 829 12| consideration. Question was asked of Demosthenes, what was the chief part 830 21| this would be done with a demure abasing of your eye, sometimes, 831 37| to a woman, who sat very demurely at the board’s end, till 832 48| general. The reparation of a denial, is sometimes equal to the 833 15| nec artibus Graecos, nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis et 834 15| are noble and divine: Non deos vulgi negare profanum; sed 835 32| government of the plantation, depend upon too many counsellors, 836 19| and direction, as if it depended on them; but take the matter 837 18| state, but where it hath a dependence of foreign authority; or 838 18| the principal hand in the deposing and murder of her husband. 839 48| let him do it, without depraving or disabling the better 840 18| it is not amiss; but to depress them, may make a king more 841 18| Seventh of England, who depressed his nobility; whereupon 842 9| to come at even hand, by depressing another’s fortune.~A man 843 25| sublato, altero ad mentum depresso supercilio, crudelitatem 844 3| themselves, which cannot but move derision in worldlings, and depraved 845 19| diminution to their greatness, or derogation to their sufficiency, to 846 13| less innocent, than their descendants; for there is rarely any 847 44| perfection. We will therefore describe a princely palace, making 848 39| For so Livy (after he had described Cato Major in these words, 849 19| an idea, or mathematical description, what the kind and character 850 39| name. The Spanish name, desemboltura, partly expresseth them; 851 2| corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant. Vespasian in a jest, sitting 852 3| that one saith, Ecce in deserto, another saith, Ecce in 853 28| estimation with the vulgar, deserve no better name than fiddling; 854 48| more thanks than one hath deserved, is grown not only honorable, 855 48| or disabling the better deserver. In suits which a man doth 856 35| it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous. As 857 17| favor, in those things he desireth to see or know. Thus he 858 32| the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; 859 18| certain it is, that nothing destroyeth authority so much, as the 860 15| and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and 861 34| Tellus, Tiphysque novos~Detegat orbes; nec sit terris~Ultima 862 11| professed, and with a manifest detestation of bribery, doth the other. 863 36| anything that is hideous, as devils, giants, is on the other 864 53| VAIN–GLORY~It was prettily devised of AEsop, The fly sat upon 865 3| giveth concerning the same, Devita profanas vocum novitates, 866 3| treaties of mortification and devotion.~Concerning the bounds of 867 22| shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially 868 34| jest. It was, that he was devoured of a long dragon; and it 869 14| a strait hand, upon the devouring trades of usury, ingrossing 870 45| though it be in a moming’s dew. Bays likewise yield no 871 39| conditions, that he hath Poco di matto. And certainly there 872 15| contemplative atheist is rare: a Diagoras, a Bion, a Lucian perhaps, 873 36| and the voices of the dialogue would be strong and manly ( 874 36| Acting in song, especially in dialogues, hath an extreme good grace; 875 1| not rise to the price of a diamond, or carbuncle, that showeth 876 54| quickest reflection, like diamonds cut with facets. And therefore, 877 38| scourged upon the altar of Diana, without so much as queching. 878 17| inquiry. Let him keep also a diary. Let him not stay long, 879 14| nescivit literas, non potuit dictare; for it did utterly cut 880 14| time or other give over his dictatorship. Galba undid himself by 881 11| thyself strictly, whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect 882 29| into a custom. For those diets alter the body more, and 883 28| metaphor) may express two differing abilities, in those that 884 18| that his times were full of difficidties and troubles; for the nobility, 885 Glo| Deceive: rob~Derive: divert~Difficileness: moroseness~Discover: reveal~ 886 49| some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are 887 24| call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the 888 22| thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It 889 11| thyself well, when thou digressest from thy rule. Preserve 890 15| profanum; sed vulgi opiniones diis applicare profanum. Plato 891 17| servants, ought to make diligent inquiry. As for triumphs, 892 51| not only tedious, but doth diminish the faith and credit of 893 19| is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair 894 19| princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness, or derogation 895 2| sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis; when a man hath obtained 896 44| of the lower rooms, for a dining place of servants. For otherwise, 897 18| did Alexander the Great; Diocletian; and in our memory, Charles 898 12| only a habit of goodness, directed by right reason; but there 899 41| within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things, 900 28| no nation which doth not directly profess arms, may look to 901 48| it, without depraving or disabling the better deserver. In 902 27| selling, is commonly as disadvantageable as interest. Besides, he 903 16| joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a 904 14| persons; strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown 905 28| and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things 906 31| arguments, than of judgment, in discerning what is true; as if it were 907 15| have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other 908 38| uponsocieties well ordained and disciplined. For commonwealths, and 909 44| navigable rivers, or the discommodity of their overflowing; too 910 3| persons, do hear of so many discordant, and contrary opinions in 911 21| caught up those words, and discoursed with divers of his friends, 912 28| four hundred thousand men, discovered the army of the Romans, 913 47| gamesters; and the vale best discovereth the hill. There is little 914 32| to their country, to the discredit of the plantation. The people 915 54| he can, in their own bow. Discreet followers and servants, 916 35| continually, of favors and disgraces; whereby they may not know 917 6| because a man must needs disguise, it maketh him practise 918 55| fraud, when it is close and disguised. Add thereto contentious 919 32| forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of 920 27| and commonly it is less dishonorable, to abridge petty charges, 921 7| never where the elder are disinherited.~ 922 26| him he hoped he would not dismiss the senate, till his wife 923 16| were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth 924 14| off the yoke, and assay of disobedience; especially if in those 925 35| the use of their service, dispenseth with the rest; and to take 926 18| from them, being a body dispersed. They may sometimes discourse 927 32| is, where people are not displanted, to the end, to plant in 928 35| the way of pleasuring, and displeasuring, lieth by the favorite, 929 30| currently and constantly. They dispose kings to tyranny, husbands 930 17| ruins; libraries; colleges, disputations, and lectures, where any 931 14| interpretari quam exequi disputing, excusing, cavilling upon 932 14| especially if in those disputings, they which are for the 933 47| freedom, to scandal and disreputation; for those, that would not 934 6| politics, that are the great dissemblers.~Tacitus saith, Livia sorted 935 2| Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant. Vespasian in 936 42| the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little 937 3| religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity, 938 2| whole body is corrupted, and dissolved; when many times death passeth, 939 14| God; who threateneth the dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula 940 48| the nose. Suitors are so distasted with delays and abuses, 941 5| not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without 942 18| keep; for both temper, and distemper, consist of contraries. 943 3| outward peace of the church, distilleth into peace of conscience; 944 26| counsels; they will rather distract and mislead, than settle 945 47| wound their honor. Yet to be distracted with many is worse; for 946 19| spirit of direction, without distraction. But then it must be a prudent 947 33| get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. 948 21| towards Burrhus, Se non diversas spes, sed incolumitatem 949 3| every sect of them, hath a diverse posture, or cringe by themselves, 950 28| the purse, yet it works diversely upon the courage. So that 951 Glo| duties~Deceive: rob~Derive: divert~Difficileness: moroseness~ 952 21| ad gressus suos; stultus divertit ad dolos.~ ~ 953 24| into business; and he that divideth too much, will never come 954 14| reputation. Generally, the dividing and breaking, of all factions 955 34| nature of man, which coveteth divination, thinks it no peril to foretell 956 41| better, and, as it were, more divinely. Natures that have much 957 12| breakest the pattern. For divinity, maketh the love of ourselves 958 15| be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to both sides; 959 33| riches; Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons. The poets 960 53| to Mucianus; Omnium quae dixerat feceratque arte quadam ostentator: 961 3| exire, —Go not out. The doctor of the Gentiles (the propriety 962 1| severity, called poesy vinum doemonum, because it filleth the 963 15| for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity 964 33| custody of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them; or 965 14| greater than the feeling. Dolendi modus, timendi non item. 966 2| is good, doth avert the dolors of death. But, above all, 967 21| suos; stultus divertit ad dolos.~ ~ 968 54| reputation. Omnis fama a domesticis emanat. Envy, which is the 969 15| ipso hujus gentis et terrae domestico nativoque sensu Italos ipsos 970 34| At domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,~Et nati natorum, et 971 28| embrace too large extent of dominion, it may hold for a time, 972 28| clasp and contain so large dominions, with so few natural Spaniards; 973 34| Homer hath these verses:~At domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur 974 41| at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge 975 33| bargains, are of a more doubtful nature; when men shall wait 976 27| upon negligence alone, but doubting to bring themselves into 977 21| cross a business, that he doubts some other would handsomely 978 32| hens, turkeys, geese, house–doves, and the like. The victual 979 11| the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, 980 28| is one of the principal dowries of this kingdom of Great 981 34| France, I heard from one Dr. Penal that the Queen Mother, 982 39| serpentem comederit non fit draco. Overt and apparent virtues, 983 34| he was devoured of a long dragon; and it was expounded of 984 37| from drinking healths, to a draught at a meal; and lastly, to 985 23| be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the 986 26| senate, till his wife had dreamt a better dream. And it seemeth 987 26| which is ever infused, and drenched, in his affections and customs. 988 44| and under it a room for a dressing, or preparing place, at 989 3| propriety of whose vocation, drew him to have a special care 990 26| counsel from another, is drier and purer, than that which 991 12| feeding the streams, thou driest the fountain. Neither is 992 41| certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it 993 18| at fence, Caracalla for driving chariots, and the like. 994 40| That the usurer is the drone, that Virgil speaketh of;~ 995 36| coming forth, without any drops falling, are, in such a 996 52| things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid. 997 32| pines are, will not fail. So drugs and sweet woods, where they 998 19| undoing, like the reeling of a drunken man. Solomon’s son found 999 40| from any general stop or dryness. This will ease infinite 1000 54| call them. The next are duces belli, great leaders in