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Excerpt from The Essays, or Councils, Civil an Royal, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban: With a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil; And a Discourse of the Wisdom of the Ancients
Make an end. Andafterwards, Lord Egerton, the cellor, a great and grave Orator, (he. But his Learn ed and able, (though unfortunate) Succefibr, [lord Bacon] is he, who hath filled up all members, and per formed that in our tongue, which may be compar'd or refer'd, either to infolent Greece or haughty Rome. In finort, within his view, and about his times, were all the Wits boin, that could honour a Language or help Rudy. Now things daily fall, Wits grow downward, and Eloquence goes backward: SO that he may be ham°d and hand as the mark and any? of our Language. And a little after, My conceit of his Perfon was ne ver increafed toward him, by his place or honours. Bur Ihave and do reverence him for the greatnefs that was only proper to himfelf, in that he feem'd to me e ver by his work, one of the greatefi Men, and moit worthy Of\admiration, that had been in many Ages. In his Adverfity I ever prayed, that God would give him firength, for greatnefs he could not want. Neither cauldmg no Accident could do harm to help to make it manifefi.
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