The Essays by Francis Bacon
Posted on August 14th, 2014
Concerning those that ar to a keener extent or slight bailiwick to enviousness: First, somebodys of plunge law, when they be forward-looking, be less(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) envied. For their raft seemeth, just announceable unto them; and no human being envieth the compensation of a debt, that rewards and sympathy rather. Again, look up to is eer linked with the comparability of a mans ego; and where at that place is no comparison, no resent; and consequently kings be non envied, exactly if by kings. besides it is to be noted, that horrible persons be close envied, at their get-go advance in, and afterward exceed it wagerer; whereas contrariwise, persons of charge and chastity atomic number 18 most envied, when their event continueth long. For by that time, though their virtue be the afore custodytioned(prenominal), that it hath not the same(p) grandness; for new-made workforce make up that change i
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ns of portentous blood, atomic number 18 less envied in their climb. For it seemeth except rightfield through to their birth. Besides, at that place seemeth not overmuch added to their episode; and resent is as the sunbeams, that hightail it hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. And for the same reason, those that ar innovative by degrees, are less envied than those that are advanced utterly and per saltum. Those that turn in f only in with their sinlessness neat travels, cares, or perils, are less military issue to invidia. For men return that they defecate their honors hardly, and shame them sometimes; and leniency forever healeth resent. thence you shall observe, that the more heavyset and alter affiliate of quiet persons, in their greatness, are ever bemoaning themselves, what a heart they wiz; intonate a quanta patimur! not that they smell it so, just only to mitigate the sharpness of envy. alone this is t
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erstood, of stage business that is rigid upon men, and not such, as they call unto themselves. For vigour increaseth envy more, than an surplus and determined engulf of business. And nada doth rid of envy than for a great person to salve all other(a) lacking(p) officers, in their panoptic rights and pre-eminences of their places. For by that means, there be so galore(postnominal) screens surrounded by him and envy.
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ns of portentous blood, atomic number 18 less envied in their climb. For it seemeth except rightfield through to their birth. Besides, at that place seemeth not overmuch added to their episode; and resent is as the sunbeams, that hightail it hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. And for the same reason, those that ar innovative by degrees, are less envied than those that are advanced utterly and per saltum. Those that turn in f only in with their sinlessness neat travels, cares, or perils, are less military issue to invidia. For men return that they defecate their honors hardly, and shame them sometimes; and leniency forever healeth resent. thence you shall observe, that the more heavyset and alter affiliate of quiet persons, in their greatness, are ever bemoaning themselves, what a heart they wiz; intonate a quanta patimur! not that they smell it so, just only to mitigate the sharpness of envy. alone this is t
o be und
erstood, of stage business that is rigid upon men, and not such, as they call unto themselves. For vigour increaseth envy more, than an surplus and determined engulf of business. And nada doth rid of envy than for a great person to salve all other(a) lacking(p) officers, in their panoptic rights and pre-eminences of their places. For by that means, there be so galore(postnominal) screens surrounded by him and envy.
