The Boke Named The Gouernour: Deuised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight, Volume 2K. Paul, Trench, 1883 - Education of princes |
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... reference , no doubt , to the disputes of the casuists who debated whether nobility was the same as dignity . This subject will be found to have been disputed with great subtiity by the commentators on the Civil Law . Thus , Bar- tolus ...
... reference , no doubt , to the disputes of the casuists who debated whether nobility was the same as dignity . This subject will be found to have been disputed with great subtiity by the commentators on the Civil Law . Thus , Bar- tolus ...
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... reference specially to those conditions . The evidence tends to show that the author , who- ever he was , was an Oxford man , a good classical scholar , intimately acquainted with Venice and Rome , and well disposed to Wolsey . It seems ...
... reference specially to those conditions . The evidence tends to show that the author , who- ever he was , was an Oxford man , a good classical scholar , intimately acquainted with Venice and Rome , and well disposed to Wolsey . It seems ...
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... reference , he evidently believes to have been the author of the Pleas of the Crown , and that the passage in question is cited in that work . ( See Tyler's Life of Henry V. , vol . i . p . 363. ) The fact being that Sir John Hawkins ...
... reference , he evidently believes to have been the author of the Pleas of the Crown , and that the passage in question is cited in that work . ( See Tyler's Life of Henry V. , vol . i . p . 363. ) The fact being that Sir John Hawkins ...
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... reference to any such scene as that described by Sir Thomas Elyot in what we may style , for the sake of brevity , the St. Albans biography of the Prince . Notwithstanding this omission by the writers , whose works have been already ...
... reference to any such scene as that described by Sir Thomas Elyot in what we may style , for the sake of brevity , the St. Albans biography of the Prince . Notwithstanding this omission by the writers , whose works have been already ...
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... reference to the passage translated ; but that fact notwithstanding , he will admit that in no single instance can the author of The Governour be charged with inventing an anecdote or forging an illustration , in order to suit the ...
... reference to the passage translated ; but that fact notwithstanding , he will admit that in no single instance can the author of The Governour be charged with inventing an anecdote or forging an illustration , in order to suit the ...
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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.