Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.

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Title
Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.
Author
Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.
Publication
London :: Printed by R. I., and to bee sold by William Raybould ...,
1651.
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Aphorisms and apothegms.
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"Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42258.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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Tyrants are Gods Rods, which he casts into the fire when he hath done with them.

Caesar having bathed his sword in the blood of the Senate, and his owne Countrey-men, is after a while, miserably murdered in the Senate by his owne friends Caessius and Brutus; to shew unto Tyrants, that the highest step of

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their greatnesse is tyed to a halter; and that they are but the scourges and rods of the Al∣mighty, which he will cast into the fire, as soon as he hath done with them.

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