What is the most difficult thing to a King?
THat is, to command himselfe, and not to suffer himselfe to bee gained with Appetites and euill af∣fections.
The auncient history of the Septuagint. VVritten in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since. Of his voyage to Hierusalem, as ambassador from Ptolomeus Philadelphus, vnto Eleazer then pontiffe of the Iewes. Concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible, by the 72. interpreters. With many other remarkable circumstances. Newly done into English by I. Done
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- The auncient history of the Septuagint. VVritten in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since. Of his voyage to Hierusalem, as ambassador from Ptolomeus Philadelphus, vnto Eleazer then pontiffe of the Iewes. Concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible, by the 72. interpreters. With many other remarkable circumstances. Newly done into English by I. Done
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- 1633.
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"The auncient history of the Septuagint. VVritten in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since. Of his voyage to Hierusalem, as ambassador from Ptolomeus Philadelphus, vnto Eleazer then pontiffe of the Iewes. Concerning the first translation of the Holy Bible, by the 72. interpreters. With many other remarkable circumstances. Newly done into English by I. Done." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A73899.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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For all Humanes haue a certaine naturall inclination whereto they many times aptly suffer them∣selues to bee led, as their concupiscen∣ces will guide them, some to Ban∣quets and drunkennesse, other to pastimes and voluptuousnesse, where the greatest part of the Multitude suf∣fer themselues to tumble: But King, that should haue their thoughts more high, for they are solicited by the greatnesse of glory and honours to settle their actions to conquests, and to subiect vnder their obeysance Peo∣ples and Nations. Neuerthelesse this is greatly prayseable to hold a mea∣sure in all things, and to conserue carefully that which GOD hath and shall giue you, and not so much as to wish for that which is out of reason, or vnworthy of the high glory of your place. To the other.