The Boke Named The Gouernour, Volume 2Kegan Paul, Trench, 1883 - Education of princes |
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... wise reigninge the • The mimes found no doubt a protector in the prince of mimes , who had also his personal favourites among this profession , and allowed them easy access to his person .'- Ibid . vol . vii , pp . 132 , 133 . ' The ...
... wise reigninge the • The mimes found no doubt a protector in the prince of mimes , who had also his personal favourites among this profession , and allowed them easy access to his person .'- Ibid . vol . vii , pp . 132 , 133 . ' The ...
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... wise philosophers , moste cunnynge and experte lawyars , prudent and valiaunt capitaines . Mo semblable examples shall hereof be founden by them which purposely do rede histories , whom of all other I moste desire to be princes and ...
... wise philosophers , moste cunnynge and experte lawyars , prudent and valiaunt capitaines . Mo semblable examples shall hereof be founden by them which purposely do rede histories , whom of all other I moste desire to be princes and ...
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... wise men ? For a meane musician mought therof make a righte pleasant harmonie , where almoste euery note shulde expresse a counsayle vertuous or necessary . Ye haue nowe harde what premeditations be expedient before that a man take on ...
... wise men ? For a meane musician mought therof make a righte pleasant harmonie , where almoste euery note shulde expresse a counsayle vertuous or necessary . Ye haue nowe harde what premeditations be expedient before that a man take on ...
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... , who quotes the above passage , but erroneously describes our author as Sir John Elyot , says : The sixteenth century was especially the age of In like wise his plate and vessaile wolde be ingraued 24 THE GOVERNOUR .
... , who quotes the above passage , but erroneously describes our author as Sir John Elyot , says : The sixteenth century was especially the age of In like wise his plate and vessaile wolde be ingraued 24 THE GOVERNOUR .
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Sir Thomas Elyot Henry Herbert Stephen Croft. In like wise his plate and vessaile wolde be ingraued with tapestries , and no gentleman could consider his rooms furnished if they wanted these important adjuncts .'— Homes of other Days , p ...
Sir Thomas Elyot Henry Herbert Stephen Croft. In like wise his plate and vessaile wolde be ingraued with tapestries , and no gentleman could consider his rooms furnished if they wanted these important adjuncts .'— Homes of other Days , p ...
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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.
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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.
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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...