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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, 

 i 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: i.e. from being foiled or repulsed. Lat. a 

 repulsa. [3] please the most: i.e. the majority of people. Lat. et 

 pauciores ojfendemus. [10] Demosthenes, i 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, Cses. xi. 2. 



P. 241. [2] Cicero, Ep. ad Att. x. 4. i. [6] darling: Spelt dear- 

 ling in ed. 1605. [7] Cicero, Ep. ad Att. xvi. 15. 3. [10] Caesar 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 pretiis vero imperitissime. [22] Coesar, 

 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 



