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... arms , met with a point of great difficulty and knot- ty to solve , able to trouble and confound the wisest King in the newness of his estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation , but 1 Pacem pro viribus ...
... arms , met with a point of great difficulty and knot- ty to solve , able to trouble and confound the wisest King in the newness of his estate ; and so much the more , because it could not endure a deliberation , but 1 Pacem pro viribus ...
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... arms ) of the house of Lancas- ter , to which he was inheritor in his own person.2 The third , the title of the sword or conquest , for that he came in by victory of battle , and that the king in possession was slain in the field . The ...
... arms ) of the house of Lancas- ter , to which he was inheritor in his own person.2 The third , the title of the sword or conquest , for that he came in by victory of battle , and that the king in possession was slain in the field . The ...
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... arms or been participant of any attempts against him , so as they submitted themselves to his mercy by a day , and took the oath of allegiance and fidelity to him , where- upon many came out of sanctuary , and many more a misprint , and ...
... arms or been participant of any attempts against him , so as they submitted themselves to his mercy by a day , and took the oath of allegiance and fidelity to him , where- upon many came out of sanctuary , and many more a misprint , and ...
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... arms in Worcestershire , and had made their approaches to the city of Worces- ter to assail it . The King , as a prince of great and profound judgment , was not much moved with it ; for that he thought it was but a rag or remnant of Bos ...
... arms in Worcestershire , and had made their approaches to the city of Worces- ter to assail it . The King , as a prince of great and profound judgment , was not much moved with it ; for that he thought it was but a rag or remnant of Bos ...
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... King of Arms , whom the King commanded to turn them all again , " & c . Cott . MS . ubi sup . p . 26 . .... The edition of 1622 omits " he . " resolution , and marched speedily , so as he put HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 89.
... King of Arms , whom the King commanded to turn them all again , " & c . Cott . MS . ubi sup . p . 26 . .... The edition of 1622 omits " he . " resolution , and marched speedily , so as he put HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII . 89.
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Page 245 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 123 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 75 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 86 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, Adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 245 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 74 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt such as we spake of before.
Page 95 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Page 153 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 160 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 91 - The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men: and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed ; so the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity.