The essaies of Sr. Francis Bacon ... His religious meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene and allowed (1613)
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 · London, I. Iaggard · leaf 16
5. Of QoodneJJe^ and ■ Coodnejfecf Nature. Take Goodncffe in thisfence,the affed^ing ofthe IVeaU of men ,which isthat the GrA^cias cal VhiUnthrofia ;for the word humantty (as it 15 y^^^) icis … Of Geodnejfe, cjrc.is a little too light, to cxprefle it,Goodnes I call the habite; and Good*nejje of Nature, the incIination.Thisof all vertues, is the greateft: beingthe Charrac^er of the Deitie 5 andwithout it, man is a bufie, mifchie-uous, wretched thing : no betterthen a kinde of Verminc.…
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