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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"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 18, 2024.

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POLICIE CCXVIII. Bee harmelesse as Doves, wise as Serpents.

WHen you thinke you are much envied and spited, forbeare and bee not too prodi∣gall of your presence there, for when an hated object is present, it stirres up the passion in your dversary, absence may secure you, and bee a cause their rancour

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and malice may waste and be ex∣haled: hee that comes thus be∣fore his enemy, is as sure of rai∣sing him against himselfe, as hee that lookes in a glasse is sure to create an opposite face.

Thus,

Jesus went and walked in Gali∣lce, for he would not walke in Iury, because the Iewes sought to kill him, John 7. 1.

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