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A29240 Times treasury, or, Academy for gentry laying downe excellent grounds, both divine and humane, in relation to sexes of both kindes : for their accomplishment in arguments of discourse, habit, fashion and happy progresse in their spirituall conversation : revised, corrected and inlarged with A ladies love-lecture : and a supplement entituled The turtles triumph : summing up all in an exquisite Character of honour / by R. Brathwait, Esq. Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. 1652 (1652) Wing B4276; ESTC R28531 608,024 537

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quod_fw-la praestitimus_fw-la nostris_fw-la panorm_a quicquid_fw-la parenti_fw-la placuisse_fw-la vivo_fw-la senserit_fw-la eo_fw-la etiam_fw-la mortuo_fw-la praestare_fw-la non_fw-la desi●it_fw-la pater●_n o_o quam_fw-la parva_fw-la fuis_fw-la tenero_fw-la placuere_fw-la parenti_fw-la parvula_fw-la in_o nostris_fw-la misuere_fw-la noble_a hom._n in_o iliad_n vita_fw-la spectabilis_fw-la vultus_fw-la amabilis_fw-la vita_fw-la enormis_fw-la forma_fw-la deformis_fw-la greg._n the_o fruit_n of_o obedience_n as_o they_o have_v relation_n both_o to_o child_n and_o parent_n reverence_n prov._n 16.31_o ecclus_n 25.6_o 25.6_o quare_fw-la nihil_fw-la turpiu●_n est_fw-la quam_fw-la grandis_fw-la natu_fw-la senex_fw-la qui_fw-la nullum_fw-la aliud_fw-la argumentum_fw-la quo_fw-la se_fw-la probet_fw-la diu_fw-la vixisse_fw-la quam_fw-la aetatem_fw-la sen._n de_fw-fr tranq_fw-fr a_o a_o it_fw-la esse_fw-la se_fw-la quam_fw-la vivere_fw-la mortuum_fw-la ib._n ib._n nihil_fw-la see_v elementario_fw-la turpius_fw-la sen._n nihil_fw-la dialectico_fw-la see_v deformius_fw-la petrarch_n ecclus_n 25.3_o ecclus_n 25.4_o 5._o omne_fw-la peccatum_fw-la incurabilius_fw-la est_fw-la in_o see_v quam_fw-la in_o juvene_fw-la holgot_n sup_v li._n sap._n quantò_fw-la senes_fw-la sunt_fw-la morti_fw-la viciniores_fw-la tantò_fw-la debent_fw-la esse_fw-la puriores_fw-la in_o decret_a do_v 86._o tune_n aurorae_fw-la filius_fw-la nepenthiacis_fw-la salamancae_n fumis_fw-la primas_fw-la aurorae_fw-la horas_fw-la offeres_fw-la e_o tabernis_fw-la vestri_fw-la proruant_fw-la rhetores_fw-la a_o constant_a position_n observable_a in_o disobedient_a child_n prov._n 17.25_o prov._n 17.6_o supportance_n plin._n in_o nat._n hist._n aelian_a sambuc_fw-la in_o emblem_n paradin_n soli_fw-la vulture_n parent_n fame_n mori_fw-la permittunt_fw-la ib._n quam_fw-la vis_fw-la plurima_fw-la 〈◊〉_d reddidima_fw-la rursus_fw-la tamen_fw-la eos_fw-la generare_fw-la non_fw-la possumus_fw-la civil_a admoverunt_fw-la labiis_fw-la tigrides_fw-la ubera_fw-la &_o lacte_fw-la sugunt_fw-la nutricis_fw-la ilia_fw-la basil._n homil._n 8._o &_o 9_o valer._n max._n the_o gradual_a respect_n of_o love_n and_o duty_n donec_fw-la ab_fw-la insulae_fw-la finibus_fw-la removeantur_fw-la languentem_fw-la agentes_fw-la vitam_fw-la emori_fw-la non_fw-la poterint_fw-la the_o office_n of_o master_n to_o their_o servant_n bern._n med._n 3._o two_o extreme_n to_o be_v avoid_v whereby_o this_o domestic_a obedience_n may_v be_v better_o observe_v prov._n 29.21_o prov._n 19.19_o no_o servant_n mean_a than_o a_o parsimonious_a master_n vid._n lucian_n in_o sat._n luke_n 12.45_o lacryman_n amoris_fw-la epicaedium_fw-la vel_fw-la heroinum_fw-la elegium_fw-la farn._n in_o epig._n colos._n 4.1_o eph._n 4.9_o the_o duty_n of_o servant_n to_o their_o master_n vid._n laert._n eph._n 6.5_o the_o duty_n of_o a_o servant_n to_o his_o master_n will_v make_v a_o servant_n a_o happy_a master_n tunc_fw-la nostra_fw-la 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