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A04136 A perfite looking glasse for all estates most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned oratour Isocrates, as contained in three orations of morall instructions, written by the authour himselfe at the first in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres translated into Lataine by that learned clearke Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished to the behalfe of the reader, with sundrie examples and pithy sentences both of princes and philosophers gathered and collected out of diuers writers, coted in the margent approbating the authors intent, no lesse delectable then profitable.; To Demonicus. English Isocrates.; Isocrates. To Nicocles. English. aut; Isocrates. Nicocles. English. aut 1580 (1580) STC 14275; ESTC S107436 124,103 118

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