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Title:  Effata regalia. Aphorismes [brace] divine, moral, politick. Scattered in the books, speeches, letters, &c. of Charles the First, King of Great Brittain, &c. / Now faithfully collected and published by Richard Watson, fellow of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge.
Author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
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30. Discretion, without Passion, might easily reform whatever the rust of times, or indulgence of lawes or corruption of manners may have brought upon the government of the Church.31. It is a gross vulgar errour, to impute, or revenge upon, functions, the faults of times or persons.32. Respect and observance, even in peacefull times, is hardly paid to any Governors by the measure of their vertues, so much as by that of their Estates.33. Poverty and meanness ex∣pose men in Authority to the con∣tempt of licentious minds and man∣ners.34. There is an innate principle of vicious oppression in all men, a∣gainst those that seem to reprove, or restrain them.34. No design or passion is to be gratified with the least per∣verting 0