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to rescue and deliver himself from scorne: therefore all deformed 
persons are extreme bold.’ [27] Paragraphs 32-38 are arranged in 
the Latin in the following order; 35, 32, 36, 37, 33, 34, 38 [31] 
Cicero, Brut. 95; of the ‘fluent and luxuriant speech’ of Hortensius. 
See Essay xlii. p. 175. [33] Livy xxxix. 40; quoted again in 
Essay xl. 
P. 239. [8] Machiavelli, Disc. sopra Livio, iii. 9. [14] Demosthenes, 
1 Phil. § 46. [21] See Aulus Gellius, i. 19; Bacon, Essay xxi. p. 89; 
Colours of Good and Evil, p. 264. [30] Lucan, viii. 485. 
P. 240. [2] from foil: ie. from being foiled or repulsed. Lat. a 
repulsa. [3] please the most: i.e. the majority of people. Lat. et 
pauciores offendemus. [10] Demosthenes, 1 Phil. § 45. [18] unperfect: 
*vnperfite’ in ed. 1605. [22] Prov. xxx. 19. [27] Comp. Essay vi. 
p- 19: ‘Certainly the ablest men, that ever were, have had all an 
opennesse, and francknesse of dealing; and a name of certainty, and 
veracity; but then they were like horses, well mannaged; for they 
could tell passing well, when to stop, or turne.’ Sir H. L. Bulwer 
(Historical Characters, i. 400) says of Talleyrand: ‘ What struck the 
vulgar, and many, indeed, above the vulgar, who did not remember 
that the really crafty man disguises his craft, was the plain, open, 
and straightforward way in which he spoke of and dealt with all 
public matters, without any of those mysterious devices which dis- 
tinguish the simpleton who is in the diplomacy from the statesman 
who is a diplomatist.’ [30] Plutarch, Sylla, 38. See p. 194. [32] 
Plutarch, Cees. xi. 2. 
P. 241. [2] Cicero, Ep. ad Att. x. 4.§ 2. [6] darling: Spelt ‘dear- 
ling’ in ed. 1605. [7] Cicero, Ep. ad Att. xvi. 15. § 3. [10] Ceesar’s: 
See p. 55, 1.32. [Ib.] and men laughed: So in ed. 1605; edd. 1629, 
1633 have ‘whereat many men laughed.’ [12] the like: So ed. 1605; 
‘the like to this’ edd. 1629, 1633. [Ib.] thought: So edd. 1629, 1633; 
‘though’ ed. 1605. [16] Tacitus, Hist. ii. 38. [17] Sallust apud 
Sueton. De Claris Gram. c. 15. [27] casual: Lat. casibus obnoxia. 
[30] Compare Essay vi. p. 18: ‘Dissimulation is but a faint kind 
of policy, or wisdome; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, 
to know when to tell truth, and to doe it. ‘Therfore it is the 
weaker sort of politicks, that are the great dissemblers.’ [32] Tacitus, 
Ann. v. I. 
P. 242. [10] but not of proportions and comparison, i.e. of the 
relative values of things. Lat. de pretits vero imperitissime. [22] Cesar, 
Bell. Civ. i. 30. Compare Essay xxvi. p. 104: ‘So certainly, there 
are in point of wisdome, and sufficiency, that doe nothing or little, 
very solemnly; Magno conatu nugas.’ [31] In the second place: ‘the’ 
is omitted in edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. 
P. 243. [2] Compare Essay xxix, p. 121, where Machiavelli is again 
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