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The Essays of Lord Bacon; Including His Moral and Historical Works With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary
The Essays of Lord Bacon Including His Moral and Historical Works With Memoir Notes and Glossary Author:Francis Bacon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: F. Warne and co. Subjects: Conduct of life Literary Collections / Essays Self-Help / General Self-Help / Personal Growth / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or mi... more »ssing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IX. OF ENVY. There be none of the affections which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch, but Love and Envy. They both have vehement wishes ; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions, and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the presence of the objects : which are the points that conduce to fascination, if any such thing there be. We see, likewise, the Scripture calleth envy an evil eye /' and the astrologers call the evil influences of the stars evil aspects: so that still there seemeth to be acknowledged, in the act of envy, an ejaculation or irradiation of the eye.2 Nay, some have been so curious as to note that the times when the stroke or percussion of an envious eye doth most hurt, are when the party envied is beheld in glory or triumph. For that sets an edge upon envy ; and, besides, at such time, the spirits of the person envied do come forth most into the outward parts, and so meet the blow. But leaving these curiosities (though not unworthy to be thought on in fit place) we will handle what persons are apt to envy others; what persons are most subject to be envied themselves; and what is the difference between public and private envy. A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain another's virtue, will seek to come at even...« less