The Boke Named The Gouernour, Volume 2Kegan Paul, Trench, 1883 - Education of princes |
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... Rome to celebrate their triumph ; several oppressive laws appear to have issued from their secret consultations , and the diligence of the magistrates was animated by the presence of their sovereigns .'— Decline and Fall of the Roman ...
... Rome to celebrate their triumph ; several oppressive laws appear to have issued from their secret consultations , and the diligence of the magistrates was animated by the presence of their sovereigns .'— Decline and Fall of the Roman ...
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... Rome , vol . iv . p . 297 , ed . 1856 . b " The name of Nerva has been associated in after ages with the mildness of age , and the charm of paternal government .'- Ibid . vol . vii . p . 204 . C ' Trajan was fond of society , and of ...
... Rome , vol . iv . p . 297 , ed . 1856 . b " The name of Nerva has been associated in after ages with the mildness of age , and the charm of paternal government .'- Ibid . vol . vii . p . 204 . C ' Trajan was fond of society , and of ...
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... Rome.a The versis I haue translated out of latine in to englisshe , nat without great studie and difficultie , nat ob- seruynge the ordre as they stande , but the sentence belong- ynge to my purpose.b Though that thy powar stretcheth ...
... Rome.a The versis I haue translated out of latine in to englisshe , nat without great studie and difficultie , nat ob- seruynge the ordre as they stande , but the sentence belong- ynge to my purpose.b Though that thy powar stretcheth ...
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... Rome , was a natiue maiestie . For , as Suetonius writeth , from his eien proceded rayes or beames , whiche perced the eien of the beholders . The same emperour spake seldome openly , but out of a comentarie , that is to say , that he ...
... Rome , was a natiue maiestie . For , as Suetonius writeth , from his eien proceded rayes or beames , whiche perced the eien of the beholders . The same emperour spake seldome openly , but out of a comentarie , that is to say , that he ...
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... à quitter ces despenses , ce sera faict en un mois , sans edict et sans ordonnance ; nous irons touts aprez .'- Essais , tom . i . p . 433 , ed . 1854 . The most noble emperours of Rome , Augustus , a 20 appar THE GOVERNOUR .
... à quitter ces despenses , ce sera faict en un mois , sans edict et sans ordonnance ; nous irons touts aprez .'- Essais , tom . i . p . 433 , ed . 1854 . The most noble emperours of Rome , Augustus , a 20 appar THE GOVERNOUR .
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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 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 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 222 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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 215 - DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers.
Page 560 - With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out : And what love can do, that dares love attempt ; Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
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...