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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth
so, is rather liberal of another man's, than of his
own.
Of Prophecies
I MEAN not to speak of divine prophecies; nor
of heathen oracles; nor of natural predictions;
but only of prophecies that have been of cer-
tain memory, and from hidden causes. Saith the
Pythonissa to Saul, To-morrow thou and thy son
shall be with me. Homer hath these verses:
At domus AEneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
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