Politikos megas the grand politician, or, The secret art of state-policy discovered in evident demonstrations of unparalleled prudence, and confirmed with wonderful and successful adventures, stratagems and exploits of wisdom and subtility, both in peace and war, by the most remarkable witts of former ages : being a treatise both useful and necessary for all nobles, states-men, judges, lawyers, justices of peace, officers of wars, and all such as now are, or may happen to stand at the helm of publick affairs, whether in kingdom or commonwealth / written originally in Latin by Conradus Reinking, Chancellour ot His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburg, and now done into English by a careful hand.
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Politikos megas the grand politician, or, The secret art of state-policy discovered in evident demonstrations of unparalleled prudence, and confirmed with wonderful and successful adventures, stratagems and exploits of wisdom and subtility, both in peace and war, by the most remarkable witts of former ages : being a treatise both useful and necessary for all nobles, states-men, judges, lawyers, justices of peace, officers of wars, and all such as now are, or may happen to stand at the helm of publick affairs, whether in kingdom or commonwealth / written originally in Latin by Conradus Reinking, Chancellour ot His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburg, and now done into English by a careful hand.
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Reinking, Conradus.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Howkins ...,
MDCXCI [1691]
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Political science -- Early works to 1700.
Political ethics.
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"Politikos megas the grand politician, or, The secret art of state-policy discovered in evident demonstrations of unparalleled prudence, and confirmed with wonderful and successful adventures, stratagems and exploits of wisdom and subtility, both in peace and war, by the most remarkable witts of former ages : being a treatise both useful and necessary for all nobles, states-men, judges, lawyers, justices of peace, officers of wars, and all such as now are, or may happen to stand at the helm of publick affairs, whether in kingdom or commonwealth / written originally in Latin by Conradus Reinking, Chancellour ot His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburg, and now done into English by a careful hand." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47277.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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INTRIGUE LXIII. The Arts and Tricks of Tirants,
IT is one of the sweetest Secrets in Tiranny, to bring over to Luxury, them whose fierce∣ness may be suspected to resist the Arbitrary Proceedings of Rulers.
2. To forbid all Du∣els, without Exception.
3. To build Thea∣tres in the chiefest Cities, in which Dancing, Playing, and fine Shows, which delude the Fancy, may be used; with the bewitching
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sweetness whereof, the People being once ta∣ken, it will hinder them from returning to their former stoutness of resisting Tiranny.
And by Consequence, they will be less able to do hurt either to Prince or Government, being they are become effeminate.
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