[Bacon by Richard William Church]@TWC D-Link bookBacon CHAPTER IV 8/28
Stately, leastwise nodd ( ?) crafty.
They have made him believe that he is wondrous wise." And, finally, he draws up a paper of counsels and rules for his own conduct--"_Custumae aptae ad Individuum_"-- which might supply an outline for an essay on the arts of behaviour proper for a rising official, a sequel to the biting irony of the essays on _Cunning_ and _Wisdom for a Man's Self_. "To furnish my L.of S.with ornaments for public speeches.
To make him think how he should be reverenced by a Lord Chancellor, if I were; Princelike. "To prepare him for matters to be handled in Council or before the King aforehand, and to show him and yield him the fruits of my care. "To take notes in tables, when I attend the Council, and sometimes to move out of a memorial shewed and seen.
To have particular occasions, fit and graceful and continual, to maintain private speech with every the great persons, and sometimes drawing more than one together.
_Ex imitatione Att._ This specially in public places, and without care or affectation.
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