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Page 98
... prudence . For contraries illustrate each other , and to know the sinister practices of an art gives light to the art itself , as well as puts men upon their guard against being deceived . See Morhof's " Polyhist . " tom . ii . p . 128 ...
... prudence . For contraries illustrate each other , and to know the sinister practices of an art gives light to the art itself , as well as puts men upon their guard against being deceived . See Morhof's " Polyhist . " tom . ii . p . 128 ...
Page 102
... prudence , with the names and reputations of men , are committed to its trust . But it is attended with no less difficulty than dignity ; for it is a work of great labor and judgment , to throw the mind back upon things past , and store ...
... prudence , with the names and reputations of men , are committed to its trust . But it is attended with no less difficulty than dignity ; for it is a work of great labor and judgment , to throw the mind back upon things past , and store ...
Page 105
... prudence to human actions , than really appears in them ; so that satire might be a truer picture of human life , than certain histories of this kind : whereas lives , if wrote with care and judgment , proposing to represent a person ...
... prudence to human actions , than really appears in them ; so that satire might be a truer picture of human life , than certain histories of this kind : whereas lives , if wrote with care and judgment , proposing to represent a person ...
Page 114
... prudence , as of all human speech nothing is more solid or excellent than such epistles , for they contain more of nat- ural sense than orations , and more ripeness than occasional discourses : so letters of state affairs , written in ...
... prudence , as of all human speech nothing is more solid or excellent than such epistles , for they contain more of nat- ural sense than orations , and more ripeness than occasional discourses : so letters of state affairs , written in ...
Page 126
... prudent admonition ; viz . , that we are not to expect the discovery of things useful in common life , as that of corn , denoted by Ceres , from abstract philosophies , as if these were the gods of the first order - no , not though we ...
... prudent admonition ; viz . , that we are not to expect the discovery of things useful in common life , as that of corn , denoted by Ceres , from abstract philosophies , as if these were the gods of the first order - no , not though we ...
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