Lord Bacon's Essays, or counsels moral and civil

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no more of Englaud, ut o Britatu. There as also another PROPHECY

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made to suppres them. I AAT, tha liath give them Grace, an spme Credit, consisteth in three Things. First, that Men mar them When the hit, an neve mar Whenthe missi A the do generali alla os Dreams. The secon is that probabie Conjedii ires, o obscure Tradi

os an which oveteth Divination, thinks it no Peril to Forete that, hichindeed the do ut Collect. A thato Seneca's Verse For so much Was then subjecta Demonstration, that tho

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probabi conceiv'd nolo he ali ea: An addin theret the Tradition in Fiato , Timeus, an his Atlanticus, it might encourage One to turn it to a PREDICTIO N. The third and last whicli is the reat ne is that almost ali of them, heing infinite in Num-ber, have been Impos tures, and by die and crasty Brain meret contrived and feigned, after the Event past.

XXXVI. AMBITIO N.

AMBITION is like holere

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There is nother considerable se also Of AMBITIO UOMEN, in lipping the Wings of thos that ver-top, and in pulli nidown thei Greatness a Ti.

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the Oni Figure amongst Cyphers, astho Bane an Calamit os an Age. Hos o uncis attended illi three re-marhabio Advantages: A Power tooblige i meas Approach o Princes iand the aissing of a Man's wn Fortune. He that ath the est of these three Intentions, When e spireth, is an Hones Man: And that Prince, that ean discern and distinguis suchrantem. tions in his Servanis, is a Wis Prince. But, in generat, princes an Stateashould chus such Ministers, as are ted more by Duty than ΛΜ A1t Iobi ana