The Boke Named The Gouernour, Volume 2Kegan Paul, Trench, 1883 - Education of princes |
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... kynge of Israhel ; that where Saul and god commaunded hym by the mouth of Samuel the Amalech . prophet , that for as moche as the people called Amalech had resisted the children of Israhel , whan they first departed from Egypt , he ...
... kynge of Israhel ; that where Saul and god commaunded hym by the mouth of Samuel the Amalech . prophet , that for as moche as the people called Amalech had resisted the children of Israhel , whan they first departed from Egypt , he ...
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... kynge , the yongest sonne of a poure man of Bethleem , named Isai , b whiche was kepyng his father's shepe . Sens ... Kynges ) do I speake , that ye maye learne wysdome and not go amysse .'— The Boke of Wysedome , cap . vi . ed . 1542 ...
... kynge , the yongest sonne of a poure man of Bethleem , named Isai , b whiche was kepyng his father's shepe . Sens ... Kynges ) do I speake , that ye maye learne wysdome and not go amysse .'— The Boke of Wysedome , cap . vi . ed . 1542 ...
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... kynges doughter , without other apparaile or seruant , represented suche a won- derfull maiestie in his countenance and speche , that the kynge of the countray , named Alcinous , in that extreme calamitie , wisshed that Ulisses wold ...
... kynges doughter , without other apparaile or seruant , represented suche a won- derfull maiestie in his countenance and speche , that the kynge of the countray , named Alcinous , in that extreme calamitie , wisshed that Ulisses wold ...
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... kynge of Romanes by kynge of election of the people . What caused it suppose you Romanes . but his wisedome and vertue ? whiche in hym was very nobilitie , and that nobilitie broughte hym to dignitie . And if that were nat nobilitie ...
... kynge of Romanes by kynge of election of the people . What caused it suppose you Romanes . but his wisedome and vertue ? whiche in hym was very nobilitie , and that nobilitie broughte hym to dignitie . And if that were nat nobilitie ...
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... kynge of Sicile , after that for his in- tollerable pride he was driuen by his people out of his realme , the ... kyng of Macedonia , and one of the rychest kynges that euer was in Grece , for his execrable pride , was at the last ...
... kynge of Sicile , after that for his in- tollerable pride he was driuen by his people out of his realme , the ... kyng of Macedonia , and one of the rychest kynges that euer was in Grece , for his execrable pride , was at the last ...
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