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... King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him ) ; and vehemently suspected to have been the ... King Edward his brother he was not without secret trains and mines to turn envy and hatred upon his brother's government ...
... King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him ) ; and vehemently suspected to have been the ... King Edward his brother he was not without secret trains and mines to turn envy and hatred upon his brother's government ...
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... King presently that very day , being the two and twentieth of August , assumed the style of King in his own name , without ... King's ( being an act merely of policy and power ) proceeded not so much from any apprehen- sion he had of Dr ...
... King presently that very day , being the two and twentieth of August , assumed the style of King in his own name , without ... King's ( being an act merely of policy and power ) proceeded not so much from any apprehen- sion he had of Dr ...
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... King's uncle ) was created Duke of Bedford ; Thomas the Lord Stanley ( the King's father - in - law ) Earl of Derby ; and Edward Courtney Earl of Devon ; though the king had then The Latin translation adds non pustulæ . The word ...
... King's uncle ) was created Duke of Bedford ; Thomas the Lord Stanley ( the King's father - in - law ) Earl of Derby ; and Edward Courtney Earl of Devon ; though the king had then The Latin translation adds non pustulæ . The word ...
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... King of France ; Ferdinando and Isabella Kings of Spain ; and James the Third King of Scotland : with all of which kings and states the King was at that time in good peace and amity . ' At which day also ( as if the crown upon his head ...
... King of France ; Ferdinando and Isabella Kings of Spain ; and James the Third King of Scotland : with all of which kings and states the King was at that time in good peace and amity . ' At which day also ( as if the crown upon his head ...
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... King himself who likewise was attainted : but it was with unanimous consent resolved , that the crown takes away all ... King's enemies there were by parlia- ment attainted , the late Duke of Gloucester , calling himself The passage ...
... King himself who likewise was attainted : but it was with unanimous consent resolved , that the crown takes away all ... King's enemies there were by parlia- ment attainted , the late Duke of Gloucester , calling himself The passage ...
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Page 497 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 386 - 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 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 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 434 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
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 443 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Page 438 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 413 - Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal.
Page 498 - ... be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.