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Side 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 ...
Side 54
... 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 ...
Side 55
... 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 ...
Side 56
... 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 ...
Side 59
... Whereof the last is the most forcible and the most constant . And this is the true reason of that event which we observed and rehearsed before , that most of the great kingdoms of the world have sprung out of hardness and scarceness of ...
... Whereof the last is the most forcible and the most constant . And this is the true reason of that event which we observed and rehearsed before , that most of the great kingdoms of the world have sprung out of hardness and scarceness of ...
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Side 319 - 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.
Side 809 - 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.
Side 271 - 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...