Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	honour_n	parent_n	5,183	5	9.2349	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57483	Maxims of state written by Sir Walter Raleigh ; whereunto is added his Instructions to his sonne, and The son's advice to his aged father.; Prince	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1650 (1650)	Wing R174; ESTC R9131	26,462	87

not perpetual or at least not Hereditary in a Kingdom Yearly in an Aristocracie or half yearly in a Free-state 3. Manner of choise by whom and how to be chosen where especially they are to be chosen by suffrage and not by Lot Causes preserving a State or Common-wealth In preserving of States 2. things required 1. Mysteries or Sophisms 1. General to all States 2. Particular for every several State 2. Rules or Actions 1. General for all States 2. Particular for every State Mysteries or Sophisms MYsteries or Sophisms of State are certain secret practises either for the avoyding of danger or averting such effects as tend to the preservation of the present State as it is set or founded State Mysteries are of two sorts 1. General That pertain to all States as first to provide by all means that the same degree or part of the Common-wealth do not exceed both in Quantity and Q●ality In Quantity as that the number of the Nobility or of great persons be not more than the State or Common-wealth can beare In Quality as that none grow in wealth liberty honours c. more than it is meet for that degree For as in weights the heavier weights bear down the Scale So in Common-wealths that part or degree that excelleth the rest in Quality and Quantity overswayeth the rest after it whereof follow alterations and conversions of State Secondly to provide by all means that the middle sort of people exceed both the extreams viz. of Nobility and Ge●t●y and the base rascal and begarly sort For this maketh the State constant and firm when both the Extreams are tied together by a middle sort as it were with a band as for any conspiracy of the rich and beggarly sort together it is not to be feared To these two points the Particular rules or Sophisms of every Common-wealth are to be applied 2. Particular That serve ●or preservation of every Common-wealth in that form of State wherein it is setled as in a Kingdom That the Nobility may be accustomed to bear the government of the Prince especially such as have their dwelling in remote places from the Princes eye it is expedient to call them up at certain times to the Princes Court under pretence of doing them honour or being desirous to see and enjoy their prese●ce and to have their children especially their eldest to be attendant upon the Prince as of special favour towards them and theirs that so they may be trained up in duty and obedience towards the Prince and be as Hostages for the good behaviour and faithfull dealing of their Parents especially if they be of any suspected note To that end serves the Pe●si●● practise in having a Band or Train of the S●trapa's children and other Nobles to attend the Court which was well imitated by our Train of H●n●●men if they were of the Nobler sort Again sometimes to borrow small sums of his Subjects and to pay them again that he may after borrow greater sums and never pay So in an Oligarchy least it decline to a Popular State they deceive the people with this and the like Sophisms viz. They compel their own sort to wit the rich men by great penalties to frequent their Assemblies for choosing of Magistrates for provision of Armour warlike Exercises making an Execution of Laws c. By that means seeming to bear a hard hand over the richer but to suffer the poorer and meaner sor● to be absent and to neglect those Assemblies und●r pretence that they will not draw them from their business and private earnings Yet withall to cite thither some few of them viz. so many as are easily over matched by the ●icher sort to make a shew that they would have the people or poorer sort partakers likewise of those matters yet terrifying those that come to their Assemblies with the tediousness of consultations greatness of Fines if they should mis-do to the end to make them unwilling to come again or to have to do with those Consultations by which means the richer sort do still govern the State with the peoples liking and good contentment Axioms Axioms or Rules of preserving the state are 1. G●neral that serve for all Common-wealths 2. Particular that serve for every several State General Rules 1. THe first and principal Rule of Policie to be observed in all States is to profess and practise and maintain the true worship and Religion of Almighty God prescribed unto us in his word which is the chief end of all government The Axio● That God be obeyed simply without exception though he command that which seemeth unreasonable and absurd to Humane policy as in the Iews Common-wealth That all the men should repair yearly to one place to worship God four times leaving none to defend their coast though being beset with many Enemies Not to sow the seventh year but to suffer the ground to rest untilled without respect or fear of famine c. 2. To avoid the causes of Conversions whereby States are over-thrown that are set down in the Title of conversions For that Common-vvealths as natural bodies are preserved by avoiding that which hurteth the health and State thereof a●d are so cured by contrary medicines 3. To take heed that no Magistrate be created or continued contrary to the Laws and policy of that Stat● As that in a S●nate there be no● created a perpetual Dict●tor as Caesar in Rome In a Kingdom that there be no Senate or Convention of equal power with the Prince in State matters as in Poland 4. To create such Magistrates as love the State as it is setled and take heed of the contrary practise as to advance Popular persons in a Kingdom or A●istocracie And secondly to advance such as have skill to discern what doth preserve and what hurteth or altereth the present Stat● 5. To that end to have certain Of●icers to p●y abroad and to observe such as do not live and behave themselves in sit sort agreeable to the present State but de●●e rather to be under some other form or kind of government 6. To take heed that Magistracies be not sold for money nor bribe in their Offices which is specially to be observed in that Common-wealth which is governed by a few of the richer sort For if the Magistrate gain nothing but his Common Fees the common sort and such as want honour take in good part that they be not preferred and are glad rather that themselves are suffered to intend private business But if the Magistrate buy and sell matters the common people are doubly grieved both because they are debar'd of those preferments and of that gain they see to grow by them which is the cause that the Germ●in Oligarchi●s continue so firm for both they suffer the poorer sort to grow into wealth and the richer sort are by that means freed and secured from being under the poor 7. To take heed that the State as it is setled and maintained be not overstuct