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mindful of his love of contemplation, and that 

 genius is rarely prompt in action or consistent in 

 general conduct : (b) Unmindful of his own 

 words, &quot; 1 ever bore a mind to serve his majesty 

 in some middle place that I could discharge, 

 not as a man born under Sol, that loves honour ; 

 nor under Jupiter, that loves business ; for the 

 contemplative planet carries me away wholly.&quot; (c) 

 Unmindful of his own words, &quot; Men in great place 

 are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign in 

 state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business : 

 so as they have no freedom neither in their persons, 

 nor in their actions, nor in their times. Power they 

 seek, and lose liberty : they seek power over others, 

 and lose power over themselves.&quot;(rf) Unmindful of his 

 admonition, &quot; Accustom(tf) your mind to judge of the 

 proportion or value of things, and do that substanti 

 ally and not superficially; for if you observe well, 

 you shall find the logical part of some men s minds 

 good, but the mathematical part nothing worth : 



(//) Their early habits have been those of contemplative in 

 dolence; and the day-dreams, with which they have been ac 

 customed to amuse their solitude, adapt them for splendid spe 

 culation, not temperate and practicable counsels. -COLERIDGE. 



(c) Letter to Lord Burleigh. 



(d) Essay on Great Place. Vol. i. p. 50. 



(e) Hobbes, who was intimate with Lord Bacon, says, in his 

 preface to the Leviathan, &quot; But there is another saying not of 

 late understood, by which they might learn truly to read one ano 

 ther, if they would take the pains ; and that is, nosce teipsum, 

 read thyself: which was not meant, as it is now used, to counte 

 nance, either the barbarous state of men in power towards their 

 inferiors; or to encourage men of low degree to a saucy be 

 haviour towards their betters ; but to teach us, that for the simi- 



