The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.
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The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.
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London :: Printed for Edward Brewster ...,
1656.
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Christian life.
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"The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34173.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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POLICIE CLIII. A discreet retiring where envy is.
IF you perceive, and have no∣tice by any that you are not favored by those persons of emi∣nency you adhere to, take the admonition, and disereetly re∣tire; such a motion is but to draw backe your arrow, that you may shoote with more advantage at∣terward.
Thus,
Achish told David, The Lords favour thee not, and David rose early to depart, 1 Sam. 29. 6. 11.
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