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A discourse of constancy in two books chiefly containing consolations against publick evils written in Latin by Justus Lipsius, and translated into English by Nathaniel Wanley ...

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A discourse of constancy in two books chiefly containing consolations against publick evils written in Latin by Justus Lipsius, and translated into English by Nathaniel Wanley ...
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Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.
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London :: Printed by J. Redmayne, for James Allestry ...,
1670.
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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THE TABLE.

A.
ABjectness of the Mind, a Vice, and whence.
21
Achilles, how advised.
135
Affliction, the touch-stone of vertue.
182
The ends of it.
180
Affrica, a great Plague there.
267
Anaxagoras, his reply.
65
Antonius, taxes by him.
269
The manner of his death.
223
Antonius Caracalla, his cruelty.
275
Arbiter, his saying.
43
Aristophanes, his saying.
5
Aristotle, his opinion of Fate.
105
Atlantis, drowned.
91
Augustine, his censure of Cicero.
126
Augustus, Flamens and Priests to him.
281

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Colonies placed by him
271
His endeavour to dye
224
Taxes imposed by him
269, 270
Vnfortunate in his family.
224
B.
BElgia, its troubles
3. 39
Bias, his saying
127
Boast, of Iulius Caesar
262
Of Pompey the great
Ibid.
Of Csato the Censour
263
Boethius, his saying
191
Brutus, his wish.
223
C.
CAius Caesar, where slain
222
Calamities, are good how
167
Their Original whene.
80, 81, 82, 83
Their end what
170
The force of them broken,
172

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Caligula, his saying
217
Captivity, the miseries of it
265
Cato, his saying
221
Ceneus, his story
162
Chance, ha's no rule in the world
74
Change, all things tend to it
88, 89, 90
Instances of it
91, 92, 93, 94.
Chastisement, it avails us
186
Circumstances, more feared than the things themselves
144, to 149
Cities, raised at once
263
Colonies, placed by Augustus
270
The strength of the Empire
Ibid.
Comets, not all in the air
89
Complaint, of Tiberius
219
Of Nero
Ibid.
Considia, how cured
243
Constancy, a remedy in the sickness of the Mind
19
Its definition
Ibid.
The praise of it
31, 32
Opposed by what
36
Country, what
47
Which the true one
61
Our obligation and love to it
55

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Not from nature but custom
61
How to be assisted by us
134
Crantor, his saying
283
Crates, his reply to Alexander
135
Creon, his story
Ibid.
Cruelties, in times past
272, &c.
Custom, of the Romans.
216
D.
DAvid, the Plague in his reign
266
Death, punishment after it to the wicked
223
Demetrius, his saying
182
Demochares, his prescription to a Lady
243
Desires, some the stronger for being op∣posed
14
Dioclesian, his retirement
143
Dyonysius, his story
221
Domitianus, at what hour slain
118
His blasphemous Title
281
His cruelty.
282

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    E.
    EArthquakes, wonderful ones.
    92, 93
    Euripides, his saying.
    214
    Evil men, not punished why.
    208
    Evils present compared with those of for∣mer times.
    256, &c.
    Evils not grievous, nor new.
    242
    Evils publick and private what
    36
    Euclid, his Apothegme.
    127
    F.
    Famines, in former times.
    268, &c.
    Fate asserted.
    98
    Vniversally aseended to
    101
    Some difference about its parts.
    102
    How distinguished of by the anci∣ents.
    Ibid.
    Mathematical Fate what
    103

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    Natural Fate what
    104
    Violent Fate how defined
    106
    True Fate, its definition
    112
    How it differs from providence
    114
    How from the Stoicks Fate
    119
    It offers no violence to the will
    121
    It acts by second causes
    131
    No ground for sloth.
    133
    G.
    Galba, his cruelty
    275
    Gardens, those of Langius
    139
    The praise of them
    141, 142
    Kings and other excellent persons addicted to them
    143
    How abused by some
    148
    How to be used
    Ibid.
    God, orders and rules all things
    74
    Not to be murmured at by us
    81
    His unchangeableness
    100
    Not the Authour of sin
    122,123,124
    Not the cause of Evil
    168

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    Punishes most justly
    229
    He onely discernes the difference be∣twixt crimes
    230
    Why he transferres punishment
    235, 236
    He joines those things we sever
    Ib.
    He loves his, but severely
    180
    He hath appointed all things their bounds
    192
    Greece, its calamities by war.
    260, &c.
    H.
    Helice, and Bara swallowed up by wa∣ter
    91
    Hesiod, his saying
    216, 237, 238
    Homer, his advice
    5, 135
    Honorius, the famine in his reign
    268
    Horace, his saying
    64
    Hunnes, how many stain at once.
    263

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      I.
      Jewes, their wonderful slaughter
      257, &c.
      Instruments, why God useth the wicked as his
      173
      Internal punishment, the most grie∣vous
      216
      Inundations, the mischiefs by them
      91
      Italy, slain there in the punick war
      261
      Julius Caesar, the manner of his death.
      222
      Justice, of God wakeful
      190
      Justinian, the great plague in his reign.
      267
      The famine in his time
      268
      K.
      KNowledge, the desire of it a happy presage in youth
      165

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        L.
        LAngius, praised
        2
        His gardens
        139
        How used by him
        153
        Lucullus, his cruelty
        274
        M.
        MAn, at variance with himself
        24, &c.
        An in bred malice in him
        48
        Pindars account of him
        97
        Vnable to judge of crimes
        229
        He hath a will but not the power to resist God
        125
        Prone to aggravate his own afflicti∣ons
        254
        Masanissa, his famous plat.
        142
        Mercy, what it is
        68
        How it differs from pitty
        Ib.
        Michael Ducas, the great plague in his reign
        267, 268
        Mithridates, his cruelty
        276

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        Murthers, in times past
        127, 128
        Mutations, several instances of them
        88, &c.
        Mysteries, the acclamation usual therein,
        288
        N.
        NAture of God, slow to revenge
        211
        Nature of Man, prone to aggravate afflictions
        254
        Necessity, what it is
        85
        Publick evils from it
        86
        Its force and power
        85, 86
        From what grounds derived
        Ibid.
        New found world, its desolations
        263,264
        O.
        OBstinacy, how it differs from Con∣stancy
        20
        Opinion, what it is
        22
        Its original whence
        27, &c.
        Its power and effects
        Ibid.
        It leads to levity
        Ibid.

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        Oppressions, internal and external here∣tofore.
        279, 280
        P.
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        PAssions, whence they rise
        34
        Patience, the mother of constancy
        21
        Its definition
        Ibid.
        How it differs from stupidity
        Ibid.
        Petrarch, a great plague in his time
        268
        Polus, his story
        43.
        Pompey, his boast
        262
        Philosophy, how it workes
        51
        Pindar, his saying
        49
        Pitty, what it is
        68
        How it differs from mercy
        Ibid.
        How it may be used
        70
        Plagues, wonderful examples of them
        266, 267, 268
        Plato, his councel
        84
        His saying
        216
        Proscriptions,
        272, 273
        Providence, what
        77

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          Nothing done below but by it
          80
          Publick evils, why they afflict us
          44
          Not so great as they seem
          144
          Punishment, all have deserved it
          229
          Good for us
          189
          For the safety and ornament of the u∣niverse.
          193
          Why unequal
          202
          VVhy wicked men are not punished
          208, 209
          Deferred why
          Ib,
          Transferred why
          232
          Divers sorts of punishments
          215
          Q.
          QUintus Catulus, his saying
          273
          Quintus Fabius, how many Gaules slain by him.
          263
          R.
          RApines,
          270
          Regulus, how he dyed
          183
          Right Reason, what it is
          22

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          Its original whence
          25
          Its power and effects
          28, 29
          It leads to constancy
          26
          Romans, their calamities by war
          261, &c.
          S.
          Salvian, his saying
          204
          Semiramis, her pendulous gardens
          142
          Senatours, of Rome how taxed
          269
          How many at once proscribed
          272 &c.
          Seneca, his seeming errour
          109
          His sayings
          83, 200
          Simulation, in mens griefs
          41, 42.
          Socrates, his reply to a Question propoun∣ded
          11
          Sloth, no excuse for it from Fate
          133, 134
          Solon, his story
          Ibid.
          His prospect to his Friend
          285
          Sophocles, his saying
          205
          Stoicks, commended
          108
          The Authors of violent Fate
          105
          Sylla, his cruelty,
          274

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            T.
            TAcitus, his saying
            218
            Tarquinius why expelled Rome
            117
            Thales, his Apothegme
            85
            His saying
            230
            Theodosius, his cruelty
            276
            Travail, helps not diseases within
            8
            A Symptome rather than cure
            7
            It removes only the lighter motions of grief
            12
            Rather exasperates the greater
            13
            Tributes, examples of them in former times
            269, 270
            Trismegistus, his opinion of Fate, Provi∣dence and Necessity
            103
            Tyranny, whence.
            278
            V.
            VAriety, delights us
            195, 196
            Varro, the consul praised
            134
            Velleius Paterculus, his saying
            132

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            Venice, its antiquity
            94
            Venus, hath changed its colour magni∣tude and situation
            90
            Violent Fate, how defined
            106
            Vertue, how she is directed
            21, 22
            Volesus Messalla, his cruelty.
            276
            W.
            WArres, of the ancients
            161,162,163
            Warres, in Iudea how many slain in them
            157, &c.
            Wicked Men, why used by God as his instruments
            173
            What punishments they never escape
            217
            Punished after death
            320
            Not exempt from external punish∣ments
            Ibid.
            Wisdom, seems stern at a distance
            70
            An exhortation to it
            161
            The way to attain to Constancy
            162
            Not acquired by wishes
            Ibid.
            The greatest instance of it, what.
            174

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              Y.
              YOuth, advised in their studies
              161
              A good presage in Youth, what
              165
              Z.
              ZEno, how he defines fate
              108
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