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... Prince of Orange : being beaten with rods of iron and torn with red - hot pincers , he uttered not a single groan ; nay , when something aloft broke and fell on the head of a bystander , the half - burnt wretch laughed in the midst . of ...
... Prince of Orange : being beaten with rods of iron and torn with red - hot pincers , he uttered not a single groan ; nay , when something aloft broke and fell on the head of a bystander , the half - burnt wretch laughed in the midst . of ...
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... prince were to ask each candidate whom he would most recommend next to himself , it is probable that their second votes would meet in the most able and deserving man . 1 Ovid , De Art . Amand . ii . 262 .: — Vice often lurks ' neath ...
... prince were to ask each candidate whom he would most recommend next to himself , it is probable that their second votes would meet in the most able and deserving man . 1 Ovid , De Art . Amand . ii . 262 .: — Vice often lurks ' neath ...
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... prince , each endeavour- ing to give a sample of his wisdom , that the ambas- sador might be able to make a report of the wonderful wisdom of Greece ; one of them remained silent and propounded nothing ; insomuch that the ambassador ...
... prince , each endeavour- ing to give a sample of his wisdom , that the ambas- sador might be able to make a report of the wonderful wisdom of Greece ; one of them remained silent and propounded nothing ; insomuch that the ambassador ...
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... prince or a superior be kindled against you , and it is your turn to speak , Solomon gives two directions : first , " that an answer be made , ” and secondly , " that it be soft ; " the former whereof contains three precepts . First ...
... prince or a superior be kindled against you , and it is your turn to speak , Solomon gives two directions : first , " that an answer be made , ” and secondly , " that it be soft ; " the former whereof contains three precepts . First ...
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... prince who readily hearkens to lies , has all his servants wicked.1 Explanation . When the prince is one who lends an easy and cred- ulous ear without discernment to whisperers and in- formers , there breathes as it were from the king ...
... prince who readily hearkens to lies , has all his servants wicked.1 Explanation . When the prince is one who lends an easy and cred- ulous ear without discernment to whisperers and in- formers , there breathes as it were from the king ...
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Página 349 - and Cabalists. But these men do not gain their object; and instead of giving honour to the Scriptures as they suppose, they rather embase and pollute them. For to seek the materiate heaven and earth in the word of God, (whereof it is said, " Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away
Página 256 - and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and built great bulwarks round against it, and besieged it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 310 - of Laws, that they be certain. APHORISM 8. Certainty is so essential to law, that law cannot even be just without it. " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?
Página 243 - turns again on his reprover, whom being now made odious to him he either directly assails with abuse, or afterwards traduces to others. PROVERB. (7.) A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. 2
Página 298 - as it is trivially said, where the sinews of men's arms in base and effeminate people are failing. For Solon said well to Croesus, when in ostentation he showed him his gold, " Sir, if any other come that has better iron than you, he will be master of all this gold.
Página 257 - that they commit not offices or the government of provinces to needy persons and such as are in debt; for peoples, that they allow not their rulers to be too much in want of money. PROVERB. (25.) A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and a corrupt spring. 2
Página 304 - least the reputation amongst all neighbour states, as may be well seen in Spain; which has had, in one part or other, a veteran army almost continually, now by the space of six-score years. To be master of the sea, is an abridgment of a monarchy. Cicero writing to Atticus of Pompey's preparation against Caesar, says,
Página 226 - life and actions; such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass to attain. For if these two things be supposed, that a man set before him honest and good ends, and again that his mind be resolute and constant to pursue and obtain them, it will follow that his mind shall
Página 194 - Nee sum animi dubius, verbis ea vincere magnum Quam sit, et angustis his addere rebus honorem. 1 And surely, if the purpose be in good earnest, not to write at leisure that which men may read at leisure, but really to instruct and suborn action and active live, these
Página 134 - which application and variety of speech, in perfection of idea, ought to extend so far, that if a man should speak of the same thing to several persons, he should nevertheless use different words to each of them; though this politic and familiar part of eloquence in private discourse it is certain that the greatest orators