The Boke Named The Gouernour: Deuised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight, Volume 2K. Paul, Trench, 1883 - Education of princes |
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... moche as examples greatly do profite in the stede of experience , here shall it be necessarye to remembre the historie of Saule , whom god hym selfe elected to be the firste kynge of Israhel ; that where Saul and god commaunded hym by ...
... moche as examples greatly do profite in the stede of experience , here shall it be necessarye to remembre the historie of Saule , whom god hym selfe elected to be the firste kynge of Israhel ; that where Saul and god commaunded hym by ...
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... moche honour they receiue , but howe moche care and burdene . Ne they shall nat moche esteme their reuenues and treasure , con- siderynge that it is no buten or praie , but a laboriouse office and trauaile.a 18 Let them thynke the ...
... moche honour they receiue , but howe moche care and burdene . Ne they shall nat moche esteme their reuenues and treasure , con- siderynge that it is no buten or praie , but a laboriouse office and trauaile.a 18 Let them thynke the ...
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... moche foly ; In to moche pleasure set nat felicitie , If luste or anger do thy mynde assaile , Subdue occasion , and thou shalte sone preuaile . What thou mayst do delite nat for to knowe , But rather what thinge wyll become the best ...
... moche foly ; In to moche pleasure set nat felicitie , If luste or anger do thy mynde assaile , Subdue occasion , and thou shalte sone preuaile . What thou mayst do delite nat for to knowe , But rather what thinge wyll become the best ...
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... moche as that pestilence corruptethe all sences , and makethe them incurable by any persuation or doctrine , therfore suche persones from their adolescencie ( which is the age nexte to the state of man ) oughte to be persuaded and ...
... moche as that pestilence corruptethe all sences , and makethe them incurable by any persuation or doctrine , therfore suche persones from their adolescencie ( which is the age nexte to the state of man ) oughte to be persuaded and ...
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... moche folisshenesse , to glorie in a thinge of so base estimation , whiche , lacking beautie or glosse , can be none ornament to hym that weareth it , nor honorable remembrance to hym that first owed it.a But nowe to confirme by true ...
... moche folisshenesse , to glorie in a thinge of so base estimation , whiche , lacking beautie or glosse , can be none ornament to hym that weareth it , nor honorable remembrance to hym that first owed it.a But nowe to confirme by true ...
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Page 610 - Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there...
Page 211 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
Page 204 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Page 130 - I mean aid, and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. Here the best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship, is to cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say, That a friend is another himself; for that a friend is far more than himself.
Page 417 - There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women and the little ones and the strangers that were conversant among them.
Page 557 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Page 84 - By reason whereof a marvellous multitude and number of the people of this realm be not able to provide meat, drink and clothes necessary for themselves, their wives and children, but be so discouraged with misery and poverty, that they fall daily to theft, robbery, and other inconveniences, or pitifully die for hunger and cold...
Page 216 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 117 - It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre on which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy.
Page 514 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.