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Excerpt from The Essays of Francis Bacon, Vol. 2 of 2 Bour princes thereunto fo likewife in thefe intelleetual matters, there feemeth to be no lefs contention between the excellency of your Majefly's gifts of nature, and the uni verfality and perfection Of your learning. For I am well affu red, that this which I {hall fay is no amplification at all, but a pofitive and meafured truth which is, that there hath not been fince Chrifl's time any king or temporal monarch, which hath been fo learned in all literature and erudition, di vine and human. For let a man ferioufly and diligently revolve and perufe the fuccef fors of the Emperors of Rome, of which Cmfar the dictator, who lived fome years before Chrift, and Marcus Antoninus, were the befl learned and fo defcend to the Em perors of Graecia, or of the Well; and then to the lines Of France, Spain, England, Scot land, and the refi, and he {hall find'thisjudg ment is truly made. For it feemeth much in a king, if, by the compendious extrac'tions of other men's wits and labours, he can. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... Numbers marked * refer to the pages in tke second vttux. ESSAYS Wha T is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting, And, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there 5 remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins; though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth-- nor, again, that, when it is found, it imposeth upon 10 men's thoughts -- that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, 15 as with poets, nor with advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same truth Is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. Truth may 20 perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt, 1s that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? One 30 of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum...
