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... wise men , even those virtues themselves were con- ceived to be rather feigned and affected things to serve his am- bition , than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment or nature . And therefore it was noted by men of great ...
... wise men , even those virtues themselves were con- ceived to be rather feigned and affected things to serve his am- bition , than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment or nature . And therefore it was noted by men of great ...
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... wise and decent respect to distribute his creations , some to honour his coronation , and some his Parliament . The coronation followed two days after , upon the thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord 1485. At which time ...
... wise and decent respect to distribute his creations , some to honour his coronation , and some his Parliament . The coronation followed two days after , upon the thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord 1485. At which time ...
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... wise . The King was somewhat troubled with this . For though it had a grave and specious show , yet it reflected upon his party . But wisely not shewing himself at all moved there- with , he would not understand it but as a case in law ...
... wise . The King was somewhat troubled with this . For though it had a grave and specious show , yet it reflected upon his party . But wisely not shewing himself at all moved there- with , he would not understand it but as a case in law ...
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... wise and watchful King , he would not neglect anything for his safety , thinking neverthe- less to perform all things now rather as an exercise than as a labour . So he being truly informed that the northern parts were not only ...
... wise and watchful King , he would not neglect anything for his safety , thinking neverthe- less to perform all things now rather as an exercise than as a labour . So he being truly informed that the northern parts were not only ...
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... wise King , that knew his greatest dangers were not from the least treasons , but from the greatest . These resolutions of the King and his counsel were immediately put in execution . And first , the Queen Dowager was put into the ...
... wise King , that knew his greatest dangers were not from the least treasons , but from the greatest . These resolutions of the King and his counsel were immediately put in execution . And first , the Queen Dowager was put into the ...
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Page 575 - 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.
Page 497 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 379 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 377 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 413 - 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 481 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets; who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison.
Page 392 - So as a man may have a quarrel 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 455 - As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. Yet there be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart o'ut somewhat that is piquant and to the quick: that is a vein which would be bridled: Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris.
Page 478 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 415 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :