Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.

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Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.
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Stafford, Anthony.
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At London :: Printed by H.L. and are to be sold by Thomas Saunders,
1612.
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Conduct of life.
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"Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12819.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 26, 2024.

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98 (Book 98)

As, on the one side, it sauours much of indis∣cretion, to remember a man of any thing by which hee hath either done himselfe disgrace, or receiu'd it frō others: so, on the other side, it is a point of Wisdome, to put one in minde of any action of his brauely per∣formed; of any speech of his vtter'd with the asto∣nishment of the audi∣ence▪ or of any Office in the Common-wealth,

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which hee hath vnder∣gone with honour, and with augmentation of his reputation. Hee that delights to displease men, will at length reape no great pleasure.

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