Essays and New AtlantisVan Nostrand, 1942 - 302 pages |
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... sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers . Tacitus saith , 1 Livia sorted well with the arts of her hus- band , and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius ; and again ...
... sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers . Tacitus saith , 1 Livia sorted well with the arts of her hus- band , and dissimulation of her son ; attributing arts or policy to Augustus , and dissimulation to Tiberius ; and again ...
Page 52
... sort of malignity turneth but to a crossness , for for- wardness , or aptness to oppose , or difficilness , or the like ; but the deeper sort , to envy and mere mischief . Such men in other men's calamities are , as it were , in season ...
... sort of malignity turneth but to a crossness , for for- wardness , or aptness to oppose , or difficilness , or the like ; but the deeper sort , to envy and mere mischief . Such men in other men's calamities are , as it were , in season ...
Page 63
... sort ; and the greater sort are of small strength , except the multitude be apt and ready to move of them- selves ; then is the danger , when the greater sort do but wait for the troubling of the waters amongst the meaner , that then ...
... sort ; and the greater sort are of small strength , except the multitude be apt and ready to move of them- selves ; then is the danger , when the greater sort do but wait for the troubling of the waters amongst the meaner , that then ...
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