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  1    Int       |           chief occupation of young men when they passed from school
  2    Int       |        Bacon was among the crowd of men who were made knights by
  3      1, Int  |    compendious extractions of other men’s wits and labours, he can
  4      1, Int  |         prefer learning and learned men; but to drink, indeed, of
  5      1, I    |            imperfections of learned men themselves.~(2) I hear the
  6      1, I    |            demonstrates how learned men have been arch-heretics,
  7      1, I    |            it may well appear these men do not observe or consider
  8      1, I    |            he, “with the tongues of men and angels, and had not
  9      1, I    |           speak with the tongues of men and angels, but because,
 10      1, I    |             referred to the good of men and mankind, it hath rather
 11      1, I    |        pleasure in itself; but when men fall to framing conclusions
 12      1, I    |           that divers great learned men have been heretical, whilst
 13      1, I    |             may incline the mind of men to atheism, but a further
 14      1, I    |          philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress
 15      1, I    |       proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both
 16      1, II   |           that learning doth soften men’s minds, and makes them
 17      1, II   |             it doth mar and pervert men’s dispositions for matter
 18      1, II   |          least, that it doth divert men’s travails from action and
 19      1, II   |           Censor, one of the wisest men indeed that ever lived,
 20      1, II   |            Rome, and that the young men of Rome began to flock about
 21      1, II   |        disputatious, withdraw young men from due reverence to the
 22      1, II   |           and excelling in the same men and the same ages. For as ‘
 23      1, II   |          the same ages. For as ‘for men, there cannot be a better
 24      1, II   |           or lawyers which are only men of practice, and not grounded
 25      1, II   |    statesmen, not well mingled with men grounded in learning. But
 26      1, II   |          been ordinary with politic men to extenuate and disable
 27      1, II   |       extenuate and disable learned men by the names of pedantes;
 28      1, II   |            of princes; for although men bred in learning are perhaps
 29      1, II   |            secret operation it make men perplexed and irresolute,
 30      1, II   |            they resolve. If it make men positive and regular, it
 31      1, II   |            of examples, it teacheth men the force of circumstances,
 32      1, II   |         medicines it conveyeth into men’s minds much more forcibly
 33      1, II   |             learning should dispose men to leisure and privateness,
 34      1, II   |           and privateness, and make men slothful: it were a strange
 35      1, II   |            affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself
 36      1, II   |      beareth them up in the eyes of men, and refresheth their reputation,
 37      1, II   |           untrue valours, that some men’s valours are in the eyes
 38      1, II   |          them that look on, so such men’s industries are in the
 39      1, II   |           designments; only learned men love business as an action
 40      1, II   |            purchase, so that of all men they are the most indefatigable,
 41      1, II   |     learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, manageable,
 42      1, II   |      influence, hath wrought in all men of place and authority in
 43      1, III  |          unto learning from learned men themselves, which commonly
 44      1, III  |             or condition of learned men, are either in respect of
 45      1, III  |           it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little,
 46      1, III  |          grow rich so fast as other men, by reason they convert
 47      1, III  |            of life of contemplative men, it is a theme so common
 48      1, III  |             a consonancy it hath to men’s conceits in the expressing,
 49      1, III  |           in the expressing, and to men’s consents in the allowing.
 50      1, III  |            I will add, that learned men forgotten in states and
 51      1, III  |           not living in the eyes of men, are like the images of
 52      1, III  |           may appear in that we see men are more curious what they
 53      1, III  |         Hebrew rabbins? “Your young men shall see visions, and your
 54      1, III  |           see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:” say
 55      1, III  |             the fortunes of learned men.~(4) As touching the manners
 56      1, III  |     touching the manners of learned men, it is a thing personal
 57      1, III  |         from the manners of learned men; not inherent to them as
 58      1, III  |            been incident to learned men, which is, that they have
 59      1, III  |            be, for learning endueth men’s minds with a true sense
 60      1, III  |          their own fortune; whereas men that feel the weight of
 61      1, III  |        incident commonly to learned men, which may be more properly
 62      1, III  |          but the moral is good; for men ought not, by cunning and
 63      1, III  |           is often noted in learned men, that they do many times
 64      1, III  |        consequence doth oft deceive men, for which I do refer them
 65      1, III  |         point of manners of learned men.~(9) But in the meantime
 66      1, III  |           or application of learned men to men in fortune. For the
 67      1, III  |       application of learned men to men in fortune. For the answer
 68      1, III  |          were the followers of rich men, and not rich men of philosophers?”
 69      1, III  |           of rich men, and not rich men of philosophers?” He answered
 70      1, IV   |            that it is the manner of men to scandalise and deprave
 71      1, IV   |          speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after
 72      1, IV   |   Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto
 73      1, IV   |         distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter;
 74      1, IV   |   capacities, when they see learned men’s works like the first letter
 75      1, IV   |          the desert, and other holy men, and their relics, shrines,
 76      1, IV   |             denied to the memory of men.~(11) And as for the facility
 77      1, V    |      deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon
 78      1, V    |             Papia, made against old men’s marriages, had restrained
 79      1, V    |      restrained them. So it seemeth men doubt lest time is become
 80      1, V    |           levity and unconstancy of men’s judgments, which, till
 81      1, V    |          augmentation. But as young men, when they knit and shape
 82      1, V    |       particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality,
 83      1, V    |           of man; by means whereof, men have withdrawn themselves
 84      1, V    |             just censure, saying: —“Men sought truth in their own
 85      1, V    |           with this latter is, that men have used to infect their
 86      1, V    |          true handling of knowledge men ought not to fall either
 87      1, V    |         there are in the scope that men propound to themselves,
 88      1, V    |      furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire
 89      1, V    |           to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought
 90      1, VI   |           of moral philosophy, that men abandoned to vice do not
 91      1, VI   |    pusillanimity, even amongst holy men; in that he designed to
 92      1, VII  |             nature and condition of men, who are full of savage
 93      1, VII  |          counsellors which are only men of experience; the one sort
 94      1, VII  |       perpetual advancer of learned men to office, and familiar
 95      1, VII  |     esteemed it more to excel other men in learning and knowledge
 96      1, VII  |           thereunto, I am glad that men shall perceive I am as willing
 97      1, VII  |            say, “Do you think these men would have come from so
 98      1, VII  |          heavens, as to give law to men upon the earth.~(24) So
 99      1, VII  |              and they, a handful of men, left to themselves in the
100      1, VIII |         barbarism and fierceness of men’s minds; but indeed the
101      1, VIII |           of nature, the earth with men upon it (the divineness
102      1, VIII |    extendeth more over the wills of men, and not only over their
103      1, VIII |            the spirits and souls of men, and in their cogitations,
104      1, VIII |             faith and conscience of men; so great as if they have
105      1, VIII |             lawful sovereignty over men’s understanding, by force
106      1, VIII |          that Homer hath given more men their livings, than either
107      1, VIII |              we see that voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitions
108      1, VIII |     wanderings up and down of other men.~(6) Lastly, leaving the
109      1, VIII |            truth. But the images of men’s wits and knowledges remain
110      2, Int  |            the multitude of learned men than to rectify or raise
111      2, Int  |          cisterns, and pools, which men have accustomed likewise
112      2, Int  |           to the persons of learned men (besides the advancement
113      2, Int  |           sciences at large. For if men judge that learning should
114      2, Int  |          solitude in regard of able men to serve them in causes
115      2, Int  |            most able and sufficient men; as those which are ordained
116      2, Int  |      provisions of sciences, whence men in active courses are furnished,
117      2, Int  |           to help me, who call upon men to sell their books, and
118      2, Int  |             also the beneficence of men hath not been altogether
119      2, I    |           that it will make learned men wise in the use and administration
120      2, II   |    deserveth to be banished, as all men of sound judgment have confessed,
121      2, II   |             passages and motions of men and matters. But such being
122      2, II   |       consecrate. And although many men, more mortal in their affections
123      2, II   |           which some grave and wise men have used, containing a
124      2, III  |            as are written from wise men, are of all the words of
125      2, III  |          were of his own, excel all men’s else, so I suppose would
126      2, IV   |             in that manner) because men in those times wanted both
127      2, V    |          these only similitudes, as men of narrow observation may
128      2, VI   |             the golden chain, “That men and gods were not able to
129      2, VII  |            it will easily appear to men of judgment, that in this
130      2, VII  |           it may be, he may at some men’s hands, that are of a bitter
131      2, VII  |           been used; in regard that men (which is the root of all
132      2, VII  |        effects. For physic carrieth men in narrow and restrained
133      2, VII  |          physical causes, and given men the occasion to stay upon
134      2, VII  |        their precincts and borders, men are extremely deceived if
135      2, VII  |       politique that can make other men the instruments of his will
136      2, VIII |       deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand
137      2, VIII | designations of new particulars, if men in their speculation will
138      2, VIII |             doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep
139      2, VIII |            to cherish and encourage men in doubting. To which calendar
140      2, IX   |           the faces and fashions of men, do well know the advantage
141      2, X    |           weakness and credulity of men is such, as they will often
142      2, X    |          and nature of hope, maketh men depend upon physicians with
143      2, X    |         faces and countenances, yet men can bear in memory the infinite
144      2, X    |           variable than voices, yet men can likewise discern them
145      2, X    |      differing sounds of words; yet men have found the way to reduce
146      2, X    |             new in the kind; and if men will intend to observe,
147      2, X    |             and the contribution of men’s several experiences, and
148      2, X    |            never proscribed so many men to die, as they do by their
149      2, X    |  descriptions. For as they were the men of the best composition
150      2, XII  |          animi; so in the nature of men’s appetite to this food
151      2, XII  |          appetite to this food most men are of the taste and stomach
152      2, XII  |           comfortable. So generally men taste well knowledges that
153      2, XII  |             policy, about the which men’s affections, praises, fortunes
154      2, XII  |          doth parch and offend most men’s watery and soft natures.
155      2, XIII |           fishes, serpents, than to men.~“Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea
156      2, XIII |             the first inventions to men, yet you will rather believe
157      2, XIII |          should seem, that hitherto men are rather beholden to a
158      2, XIII |          therefore if it be said of men,~“Labor omnia vincit~Improbus,
159      2, XIV  |          accomplished, so assuredly men have a desire to have an
160      2, XIV  |         peril of falling. Therefore men did hasten to set down some
161      2, XIV  |           nature of the mind of all men it is consonant for the
162      2, XVI  |             are dumb and deaf, that men’s minds are expressed in
163      2, XVI  |          values, and that it is fit men be not ignorant that moneys
164      2, XVI  |            argument. Wherein though men in learned tongues do tie
165      2, XVII |             there be a meeting, and men fall at words, there is
166      2, XVII |         knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas
167      2, XVII |          show of a total, do secure men, as if they were at furthest.~(
168      2, XVII |         similitudes; for else would men either have passed over
169      2, XVII |     knowledge to scorn of practical men; and are no more aiding
170      2, XVII |        knowledges in such manner as men may speedily come to make
171      2, XVII |          words of all arts, to give men countenance, that those
172      2, XVIII|             there be a meeting, and men fall at words, there is
173      2, XVIII|         knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas
174      2, XVIII|          show of a total, do secure men, as if they were at furthest.~(
175      2, XVIII|         similitudes; for else would men either have passed over
176      2, XVIII|     knowledge to scorn of practical men; and are no more aiding
177      2, XVIII|        knowledges in such manner as men may speedily come to make
178      2, XVIII|          words of all arts, to give men countenance, that those
179      2, XIX  |            teachers, or attained by men’s proper endeavours: and
180      2, XIX  |       judgment of the authors; that men thereby may make some election
181      2, XIX  |        disposition of studies; that men may know in what order or
182      2, XIX  |            well observed by Cicero, men in exercising their faculties,
183      2, XIX  |           when they fall into great men or great matters, do work
184      2, XX   |           cast away; which is, that men have despised to be conversant
185      2, XX   |       should be such as should make men in love with the lesson,
186      2, XX   |         meliore.~(3) Neither needed men of so excellent parts to
187      2, XX   |         write at leisure that which men may read at leisure, but
188      2, XX   |        Aristotle saith, “That young men may be happy, but not otherwise
189      2, XX   |           gave the Christian law to men, who gave those laws of
190      2, XX   |          that came to look on.” But men must know, that in this
191      2, XX   |       intend his health; whereas if men refer themselves to duties
192      2, XX   |      philosophers and philosophical men, that did retire too easily
193      2, XX   |           whereas the resolution of men truly moral ought to be
194      2, XXI  |            is much variety; whereof men are sensible with pleasure
195      2, XXI  |           model, who would have all men happy or unhappy as they
196      2, XXI  |             internal, so is it with men in ambition, when failing
197      2, XXI  |           die, they must needs make men think that it is a terrible
198      2, XXI  |            have they sought to make men’s minds too uniform and
199      2, XXI  |        because they themselves were men dedicated to a private,
200      2, XXI  |         civil life. And, therefore, men are to imitate the wisdom
201      2, XXI  |            meddle with it: so ought men so to procure serenity as
202      2, XXI  |          doctrine of conjugation of men in society differeth from
203      2, XXI  |             is small doubt but that men can write best and most
204      2, XXI  |          the writing of speculative men of active matter for the
205      2, XXI  |          the most part doth seem to men of experience, as Phormio’
206      2, XXI  |           and fruitful) that active men would or could become writers.~(
207      2, XXI  |          monarchy, you do well give men to understand, that you
208      2, XXI  |           seriously and wisely; for men have rather sought by wit
209      2, XXI  |             others, that write what men do, and not what they ought
210      2, XXI  |         columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions
211      2, XXI  |          the knowledge of evil. For men of corrupted minds presuppose
212      2, XXI  |       preachers, schoolmasters, and men’s exterior language. So
213      2, XXI  |        sponsorem futurae non habes. Men must pursue things which
214      2, XXII |           of our times, wherein few men do hold any consultations
215      2, XXII |            be said that the cure of men’s minds belongeth to sacred
216      2, XXII |          wherein the common talk of men (which is rare, but yet
217      2, XXII |           characters and tempers of men’s natures and dispositions,
218      2, XXII |         pretty and apt divisions of men’s natures, according to
219      2, XXII |             the most part defeateth men qui magnam felicitatem concoquere
220      2, XXII |            the divers characters of men’s natures, it followeth
221      2, XXII |       wherein he saith, “That young men are no fit auditors of moral
222      2, XXII |            not read and revolved by men in their mature and settled
223      2, XXII |          also, that much less young men are fit auditors of matters
224      2, XXII |            of them), lest they make men too precise, arrogant, incompatible;
225      2, XXII |       ground; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state
226      2, XXII |       oration, where he said, “That men needed to make no other
227      2, XXII |             holy faith doth conduct men unto, by imprinting upon
228      2, XXIII|             is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to
229      2, XXIII|         behaviour, it is by learned men for the most part despised,
230      2, XXIII|             I doubt not but learned men with mean experience would
231      2, XXIII|          experience would far excel men of long experience without
232      2, XXIII|            opinion for general wise men, as Coruncanius, Curius,
233      2, XXIII|         Here is noted that, whereas men in wronging their best friends
234      2, XXIII|            separations and breaches men do promise to themselves
235      2, XXIII|         more ancient times; that as men found out any observation
236      2, XXIII|      another prophet speaketh, that men offer sacrifices to their
237      2, XXIII|          unwonted argument to teach men how to raise and make their
238      2, XXIII|         honour, because pragmatical men may not go away with an
239      2, XXIII|            many times the worthiest men do abandon their fortune
240      2, XXIII|      persons is very erroneous: for men change with the actions;
241      2, XXIII|           favours, they do but lull men to sleep, both as to caution
242      2, XXIII|         passions tortures that urge men to confess their secrets:—~“
243      2, XXIII|    experience showeth there are few men so true to themselves and
244      2, XXIII|           19) As for the knowing of men which is at second hand
245      2, XXIII|           second hand from reports: men’s weaknesses and faults
246      2, XXIII|          are deceitful; for to such men are more masked: Verior
247      2, XXIII|        disclosing and expounding of men is by their natures and
248      2, XXIII|         wherein the weakest sort of men are best interpreted by
249      2, XXIII|            is an error frequent for men to shoot over, and to suppose
250      2, XXIII|            and less good faith than men do account upon.”~(21) But
251      2, XXIII|   sufficient to inform ourselves in men’s ends and natures of the
252      2, XXIII|          caution must be taken that men have a good stay and hold
253      2, XXIII|   concerning this knowledge is, for men to take good information
254      2, XXIII|             St. James saith, though men look oft in a glass, yet
255      2, XXIII|          behold ourselves.~(24) For men ought to take an impartial
256      2, XXIII|       Augustus Caesar lived ever in men’s eyes, which Tacitus observeth,
257      2, XXIII|          friends and followers were men active and effectual, but
258      2, XXIII|       ignorant and inferior sort of men, though men of wisdom and
259      2, XXIII|        inferior sort of men, though men of wisdom and rank do smile
260      2, XXIII|     obtruding a man’s self, wherein men think he is rewarded when
261      2, XXIII|         confidence. Caution is when men do ingeniously and discreetly
262      2, XXIII|         their wants. Colour is when men make a way for themselves
263      2, XXIII|           of necessity imposed upon men by somewhat in their person
264      2, XXIII|     occasion; for nothing hindereth men’s fortunes so much as this:
265      2, XXIII|         manebat, neque idem decebat—men are where they were, when
266      2, XXIII|            a nature, which is, that men can hardly make themselves
267      2, XXIII|          Fatis accede deisque, that men do not only turn with the
268      2, XXIII|              for this will preserve men from foil, not occupy them
269      2, XXIII|        calleth sourdes menees, when men set things in work without
270      2, XXIII|     profession, “that he wished all men happy or unhappy, as they
271      2, XXIII|           erected in the place: and men laughed and wondered, and
272      2, XXIII|         great matter of it, because men understood him not; but
273      2, XXIII|           as I may term it) of some men’s minds good, but the mathematical
274      2, XXIII|           agebat. So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves
275      2, XXIII|             the true marshalling of men’s pursuits towards their
276      2, XXIII|            means; which I know most men would have placed first,
277      2, XXIII|          the wars are the sinews of men’s arms, that is, a valiant,
278      2, XXIII|             the sinews and steel of men’s minds, wit, courage, audacity,
279      2, XXIII|             commonest errors: while men fly to their ends when they
280      2, XXIII|          the present; and therefore men must be perfect in that
281      2, XXIII|           betrayeth all utility for men to embark themselves too
282      2, XXIII|             come tumbling into some men’s laps; and a number obtain
283      2, XXIII|             That he presuppose that men are not fitly to be wrought
284      2, XXIII|          deceived with comfits, and men with oaths:” and the like
285      2, XXIII|            not much about.~(46) But men, if they be in their own
286      2, XXIII|           vain thing.” And although men should refrain themselves
287      2, XXIII|         lastly, it is not amiss for men, in their race towards their
288      2, XXIII|           tastes are corrupted: let men rather build upon that foundation
289      2, XXIII|             is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to
290      2, XXIII|         behaviour, it is by learned men for the most part despised,
291      2, XXIII|             I doubt not but learned men with mean experience would
292      2, XXIII|          experience would far excel men of long experience without
293      2, XXIII|            opinion for general wise men, as Coruncanius, Curius,
294      2, XXIII|         Here is noted that, whereas men in wronging their best friends
295      2, XXIII|            separations and breaches men do promise to themselves
296      2, XXIII|         more ancient times; that as men found out any observation
297      2, XXIII|      another prophet speaketh, that men offer sacrifices to their
298      2, XXIII|          unwonted argument to teach men how to raise and make their
299      2, XXIII|         honour, because pragmatical men may not go away with an
300      2, XXIII|            many times the worthiest men do abandon their fortune
301      2, XXIII|      persons is very erroneous: for men change with the actions;
302      2, XXIII|           favours, they do but lull men to sleep, both as to caution
303      2, XXIII|         passions tortures that urge men to confess their secrets:—~“
304      2, XXIII|    experience showeth there are few men so true to themselves and
305      2, XXIII|           19) As for the knowing of men which is at second hand
306      2, XXIII|           second hand from reports: men’s weaknesses and faults
307      2, XXIII|          are deceitful; for to such men are more masked: Verior
308      2, XXIII|        disclosing and expounding of men is by their natures and
309      2, XXIII|         wherein the weakest sort of men are best interpreted by
310      2, XXIII|            is an error frequent for men to shoot over, and to suppose
311      2, XXIII|            and less good faith than men do account upon.”~(21) But
312      2, XXIII|   sufficient to inform ourselves in men’s ends and natures of the
313      2, XXIII|          caution must be taken that men have a good stay and hold
314      2, XXIII|   concerning this knowledge is, for men to take good information
315      2, XXIII|             St. James saith, though men look oft in a glass, yet
316      2, XXIII|          behold ourselves.~(24) For men ought to take an impartial
317      2, XXIII|       Augustus Caesar lived ever in men’s eyes, which Tacitus observeth,
318      2, XXIII|          friends and followers were men active and effectual, but
319      2, XXIII|       ignorant and inferior sort of men, though men of wisdom and
320      2, XXIII|        inferior sort of men, though men of wisdom and rank do smile
321      2, XXIII|     obtruding a man’s self, wherein men think he is rewarded when
322      2, XXIII|         confidence. Caution is when men do ingeniously and discreetly
323      2, XXIII|         their wants. Colour is when men make a way for themselves
324      2, XXIII|           of necessity imposed upon men by somewhat in their person
325      2, XXIII|     occasion; for nothing hindereth men’s fortunes so much as this:
326      2, XXIII|         manebat, neque idem decebat—men are where they were, when
327      2, XXIII|            a nature, which is, that men can hardly make themselves
328      2, XXIII|          Fatis accede deisque, that men do not only turn with the
329      2, XXIII|              for this will preserve men from foil, not occupy them
330      2, XXIII|        calleth sourdes menees, when men set things in work without
331      2, XXIII|     profession, “that he wished all men happy or unhappy, as they
332      2, XXIII|           erected in the place: and men laughed and wondered, and
333      2, XXIII|         great matter of it, because men understood him not; but
334      2, XXIII|           as I may term it) of some men’s minds good, but the mathematical
335      2, XXIII|           agebat. So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves
336      2, XXIII|             the true marshalling of men’s pursuits towards their
337      2, XXIII|            means; which I know most men would have placed first,
338      2, XXIII|          the wars are the sinews of men’s arms, that is, a valiant,
339      2, XXIII|             the sinews and steel of men’s minds, wit, courage, audacity,
340      2, XXIII|             commonest errors: while men fly to their ends when they
341      2, XXIII|          the present; and therefore men must be perfect in that
342      2, XXIII|           betrayeth all utility for men to embark themselves too
343      2, XXIII|             come tumbling into some men’s laps; and a number obtain
344      2, XXIII|             That he presuppose that men are not fitly to be wrought
345      2, XXIII|          deceived with comfits, and men with oaths:” and the like
346      2, XXIII|            not much about.~(46) But men, if they be in their own
347      2, XXIII|           vain thing.” And although men should refrain themselves
348      2, XXIII|         lastly, it is not amiss for men, in their race towards their
349      2, XXIII|           tastes are corrupted: let men rather build upon that foundation
350      2, XXV  |          and some other of the wise men of Graecia, and that he
351      2, XXV  |             held them for excellent men: but that they had a fault,
352      2, XXV  |              For it cannot but open men’s eyes to see that many
353      2, XXV  |  derivations: which latter sort, if men would revive the blessed
354      2, XXV  |      positions and oppositions. But men are now over-ready to usurp
355      2, XXV  |            points are which do make men mere aliens and disincorporate
356      2, XXV  |           from thence.~(11) In this men have sought three things,
357      2, XXV  |          all summary methods, while men purpose to abridge, they
358      2, XXV  |          written to the thoughts of men, and to the succession of
359      2, XXV  |           most use; not that I wish men to be bold in allegories,
360      2, XXV  |            only after the manner as men use to interpret a profane
361      2, XXV  |          divinity, so diligent have men been either in sowing of
362      2, XXV  |          preoccupate the liberty of men’s judgments by confutations.