The Boke Named The Gouernour: Deuised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knight, Volume 2K. Paul, Trench, 1883 - Education of princes |
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... says Merivale , ' flung himself into the dissipations of his villa on the Clodian Way , and among his boon companions paraded the trophies of his campaigns , his troops of buffoons and players , dancers and conjurors , and all the ...
... says Merivale , ' flung himself into the dissipations of his villa on the Clodian Way , and among his boon companions paraded the trophies of his campaigns , his troops of buffoons and players , dancers and conjurors , and all the ...
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... says , ' Tabula picta ( a panel painted ) was the common Latin expression for an easel picture among the Romans and in later ages .'- Walpole's Anec . Paint . vol . i . p . 63 , note . Warton quotes from an Inventory of the Stores of ...
... says , ' Tabula picta ( a panel painted ) was the common Latin expression for an easel picture among the Romans and in later ages .'- Walpole's Anec . Paint . vol . i . p . 63 , note . Warton quotes from an Inventory of the Stores of ...
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... says , ' Nihil aliud est nobilitas quàm virtutis præstantia in aliquâ gente constituta .'- Lib . i . p . 15 , ed . 1552 . ⚫ Osorius says : ' Jam , quantum fuit in nobis , vim et originem nobilitatis expli- cavimus , ejus ortum ab illâ ...
... says , ' Nihil aliud est nobilitas quàm virtutis præstantia in aliquâ gente constituta .'- Lib . i . p . 15 , ed . 1552 . ⚫ Osorius says : ' Jam , quantum fuit in nobis , vim et originem nobilitatis expli- cavimus , ejus ortum ab illâ ...
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... says : ' Facilitas virtus est in Rege omnium gratissima ad ineundam gratiam , bene- volentiamque servandum .'- De Regno et Reg . Instit . lib . viii . tit . 19. And Eras- mus , analysing the character of a Prince , says : ' Civilitas ...
... says : ' Facilitas virtus est in Rege omnium gratissima ad ineundam gratiam , bene- volentiamque servandum .'- De Regno et Reg . Instit . lib . viii . tit . 19. And Eras- mus , analysing the character of a Prince , says : ' Civilitas ...
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... says : When he was once a perfite Cardinal , he loked then aboue all estates , so that all men almost hated hym and disdayned hym . ' And in 1524 , when a deputation waited upon the Cardinal to explain the impossibility of meeting his ...
... says : When he was once a perfite Cardinal , he loked then aboue all estates , so that all men almost hated hym and disdayned hym . ' And in 1524 , when a deputation waited upon the Cardinal to explain the impossibility of meeting his ...
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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.