Lord Bacon's Essays, or counsels moral and civil

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an Inclination, contrar to an Inception , sotha the rs Inception i perpetuatly Vacua- ted, and et noratari, unies the orceae continued , a in the common Orius , Non

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So the Epicureans say of the Stoich Felicit placed in Virtue That it is ille thes elicit os a layer, hocis hemere est os his Auditors, and thei Applause, ould trait

The REPREHENSION.

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Is there ere taeo Horses, and the one ould perform etter Without the Spur than theother : ut again the the with the purWould far exceed the Performance of thelariner, tuin hi in the Spur also the lalter

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it selfFIRST, Because Felicit seem to e Sig an Character of the Divine avo ur

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an iis Vatium it ad been mali omla tagainst a Tempest; other ruis than is it might seem po Merit, to induce Fortune. SE CONDI Y Because hos Things, whicli procee frona Viriue, or IndustrΥ,seem to e done by a in o Habit, and

Art, an are imitabis, and open to ther ;whereas Felicit is a Thin inlinitabis, and the Prerogative of some singula Person SoWe generali see, that Things Natura arei referr' hesore Things Artificiat, ecause the a re inimitabim for the Poruer famita- ting mahes a Thing common. THIR DLY Thola Thing that comefroni Felicit have his Recommendation, that the seem reo ista, herea Thingspurchased by ou own Viriue, eem PennF- 'ortha. Whereia pon Plutare salth elegantly of the Acts of Timoleon the most Fortunate sal Men compared illi the Acts of Agesilaus and Epaminondas, hoclived in the fame Age: Thap

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ings, or an other Marhs, hereb the yema dividerit. So when a rea Money'dMan ath dividediis Chesis, and Coins, and Bags, he eemeth to himself Richer than hewas Anytheres ore the way to amplis any Thiniis to rea it, an to mahe Anatomyonit in severat Paris, an to examin t ac- cord in to severat Circumstances Anythismaheth the greater She in is ille done ithou Orde For Confusion beget an opinionos Multitude Aiad besides, what is se down by Orde and Division, doth demonstrate, that nothiniis testis uti omitted , ut ali is there 'hereas Ditie ithou Order both ille in comprehendeth Ies that hicli isset ovinci, and besides it leaveth a Suspicion, ascis more might be Lid than is express'd.

IN REPREHENSION.

THIS COIoui deceives , First, hen the Nind of hi in that is to e persuaded, Ver- conceive or rejud ges of the reat nes of an Thing , so the the reahin oscit illmahe it seem tesse, and rectis that false opinion, an present the oblect in iis natural Truth and withou Amplification. Where- fore is a Man e in Sichnessi in Bain the Time iis seem longe to hi in ithout a Cloch, or anmour-Glasis, than is it inere meas ured, illi them For is the ediousnes and Vexation os a Diseasse, ah the Time stem longer

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tation os Time reform that istahe, and mahesi stiorte than that erroneo US Opinion con-

out , so though at thrst thelye preconceivd the way horter, ecause it a undi vide&;yer sipon his Supposition, an opinion posses the Imagination o a far lior terra pace of Ground than it proves tote, the Frustra tingos illa false Conceit, ill mahe it se em longe than the Truth. There fore is a ny Mande sire t humo arrand second the fuse opiniono another, o uch in the reat nes of any Thing et hi in eruare os Distributions and breal iniit into severa Considerations but lathim o ut of Hand exto the alter entire, and in the grost.

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whos Land qie together in on Shire foris the were dispersed the wouldio fati soea sit xvithin Notice and Comprehension. THIR DLY, his Colour deceives in Respe of the Dignit of Unit above Multitude. For at Composition is a certain Marico Indigerace an Deficienc in the Particu lars , ecause fine Thing would serve the Turn it inere ever best , ut it is the Desectand Imperfection of Things thaliath brought in that et to iece ne hin with the Additionis nother.

THERE FORE Mardi ad chosen thebet te Part. Martha, Martha thou ar trou-