Regales aphorismi: or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty.
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Regales aphorismi: or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty.
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James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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London :: Printed by B.A. and are to be sold at his house near the upper pump in Grub-street,
1650.
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James -- King of England, -- 1566-1625
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"Regales aphorismi: or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87471.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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descriptionPage 81
151 (Book 151)
That he is not of opinion that all speeches in Scripture touching beasts or fouls, by allegory doth agree with the proper and peculiar natures of them; as of that, Be wise as Serpents; or that comparison of Iob to the Ostridge, that see∣meth to neglect her young by leaving her egs in the dust, which is not the proper nature of them, as hath been approved by Barbary-Marchants that have seen them: but it seemeth so outwardly, because she hi∣deth her egs in the sand, and so removeth a little from them, but surely for no other end but to protect them, that at
descriptionPage 82
the time of need, and in the hat∣ching to break the shell, which of it self cannot.
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