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... whereof doth com- monly consume and decay and sometimes ruin the rest of the estate . And so likewise we may observe , that all the great monarchies , the Persians , the Romans , ( and the like of the Turks , ) they had not any ...
... whereof doth com- monly consume and decay and sometimes ruin the rest of the estate . And so likewise we may observe , that all the great monarchies , the Persians , the Romans , ( and the like of the Turks , ) they had not any ...
Page 53
... whereof the time seemeth to approach . For certainly like as great stature in a natural body is some advantage in youth , but is but burden in age ; so it is with great territory , which when a state beginneth to decline , doth make it ...
... whereof the time seemeth to approach . For certainly like as great stature in a natural body is some advantage in youth , but is but burden in age ; so it is with great territory , which when a state beginneth to decline , doth make it ...
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... whereof you are also abso- lutely master . Secondly , The quantity and content of these countries is far greater than have been the principal or fundamental regions of the greatest monarchies , greater than Persia proper , greater than ...
... whereof you are also abso- lutely master . Secondly , The quantity and content of these countries is far greater than have been the principal or fundamental regions of the greatest monarchies , greater than Persia proper , greater than ...
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... whereof some ages since over - ran the world . We see furder by the uniting of the continent of this island , and the shutting up of the postern ( as it was not unfitly termed ) , all entrance of foreigners is excluded ; and we see ...
... whereof some ages since over - ran the world . We see furder by the uniting of the continent of this island , and the shutting up of the postern ( as it was not unfitly termed ) , all entrance of foreigners is excluded ; and we see ...
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... whereof , after great variety of fortune , sprang the Othoman family . But never was any position of estate so visibly and substantially confirmed , as this touching the pre - eminence , yea and predominancy , of valour above treasure ...
... whereof , after great variety of fortune , sprang the Othoman family . But never was any position of estate so visibly and substantially confirmed , as this touching the pre - eminence , yea and predominancy , of valour above treasure ...
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Page 324 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 810 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 274 - The world's a bubble and the Life of Man Less than a span In his conception wretched, from the womb So to the tomb; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns on water, or but writes in dust. Yet...
Page 332 - IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another : therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause ; and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree.
Page 272 - The man of life upright, Whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds, Or thought of vanity; The man whose silent days In harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude Nor sorrow discontent: That man needs neither towers Nor armour for defence. Nor secret vaults to fly From thunder's violence: He only can behold With unaffrighted eyes The horrors of the deep And terrors of the skies. Thus scorning all the cares That fate or fortune brings, He makes the heaven his book, His wisdom heavenly...
Page 252 - For the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead : 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Page 252 - If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
Page 22 - As for my Essays, and some other particulars of that nature, I count them but as the recreations of my other studies, and in that sort purpose to continue them ; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings would, with less pains and embracement, perhaps, yield more lustre and reputation to my name than those other which I have in hand.
Page 275 - Some would have children : those that have them, moan Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign soil Peril and toil : Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease.
Page 46 - England, having Scotland united, Ireland reduced, the sea provinces of the Low Countries contracted, and shipping maintained, is one of the greatest monarchies, in forces truly esteemed, that hath been in the world.