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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	judge_v	true_a	1,473	5	4.6391	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37231	Political and military observations a new collection / by J.D. of Kidwelly.	Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1679 (1679)	Wing D396; ESTC R16079	38,546	161

a distinction between those who are purely favourites and such as may be more serviceable to him CLXXXII A Person reputed to be of great conduct and well experienc'd in the management of affairs who can maintain ten thousand men is more to be fear'd and esteem'd than ten others confederated together with each of them five thousand men in regard they are tedious and dilatory in the concerting of their designes and much time is commonly lost ere they can be unanimously brought to resolve upon the same end CLXXXIII THat person who is desirous to be entertain'd into the service of some Grandee should rather pitch upon one of some repute for his prudence than one notorious for his ignorance in regard that if his dependence be on a wise man he will find means to ingratiate himself into his favour but with an ignorant man his applications will in all likelihood prove ineffectual by reason of the want of apprehension in the person to whom they are made CLXXXIV THE affairs of this world are in a perpetual fluxe of uncertainty and instability yet are they always in a progressive course towards the end to which they ought to tend according to their nature But this progress meets with greater obstructions than we imagine in regard that we measure their motion according to our life which is of no great duration and not according to their continuance which seems long to us in respect of our selves And thence it comes that the judgements which we make of them are commonly false and defective CLXXXV IN things of importance he who does not take into his consideration all the particulars relating thereto cannot frame a right judgement of them in regard that any single circumstance how inconsiderable soever it be may change the whole face of the thing which is to be judg'd Yet true it is that many times a man may frame a good judgement thereof though he have the knowledge but of the affair only in general and on the contrary he who knows the particulars may be guilty of a greater miscarriage in regard that if his head be not clear and disengag'd from passion his attention to the particular part will confound and disturb his apprehension of the whole matter under consideration CLXXXVI IT is a great felicity for a man to see his Enemy cast down and lying at his mercy but the greater his happiness is to whom that happens the greater reason he has to make a commendable use of that victory by expressing his clemency and readiness to forgive it being the particular mark and property of a great and generous soul CLXXXVII AN inferiour Prince ought not to hazard all he has in one fight for if he get the better he only gains the more glory if he miscarries he is ruin'd to all intents and purposes CLXXXVIII WE find that in the ordinary differences which happen between men upon the civil account and in the diseases whereto men are subject the Judges and Physicians have recourse to the judgements of those who have been anciently eminent in those several Professions The same may be said of affairs of State and Policy that it were expedient the present Statesmen consulted the directions of the Ancients who have been eminent for the good Government and civilization of such as were subject to them CLXXXIX THere are many who seem to be highly diligent in the reading of ancient Histories and to take a particular divertisement therein by reason of the remarkable variety of accidents which occur but few apply themselves to the imitation thereof and that with the greater reproach to themselves in that they think it a thing not only difficult but also indeed impossible as if the Heavens the Sun and the Elements had chang'd their motions order and influences in comparison of what they were heretofore CXC THE Friendship there is between persons of quality of a private condition proceeds from the mutual correspondence of their minds and the consonancy of their humours and dispositions But among Princes this correspondence of humours does not always beget amity but sometimes out of a certain judgement which they frame to themselves of the advantages accrueing by the contraction of such Friendships and sometimes their confederations are the effects of the present exigences forcing them thereto CXCI. ADversity is the Touch stone which distinguishes between those who are friends out of design and those who are really such It makes a full discovery of the fidelity and constancy of some and how slight and superfluous others may be So that a man has this benefit by adversity that there are driven from him without the help of a Staff all that throng of persons whose souls are mercenary and of no value full of avarice and ingratitude and there remain behind only those minds which are fortune proof and such as cannot be surmounted by Adversity CXCII HE who founds a Commonwealth and establishes Laws for the government thereof ought to have presuppos'd that men are inclin'd to wickedness and will make a discovery of that inclination upon any occasion that shall offer it self And when the malignity lies conceal'd for some time it proceeds from some secret cause which for want of having seen the experience of the contrary was not observ'd but it is afterwards discover'd by time which brings all things to light CXCIII NEutrality of its own nature is full of danger in as much as it gives offence on the one side to the stronger party who expected to be sided withal upon the score of his grandeur and on the other to the weaker who takes it unkindly and thinks it an injury that he is not assisted and reliev'd So that the neutral party is neither secur'd against an enemy on the one side nor preserves a firiend on the other CXCIV AS long as a Prince continues in a neutral condition every one endeavours to caress him to draw him to his party and consequently he is honour'd and not only enjoys his neutrality in quietness but also makes an advantage of it by the presents he receives from those who would lure him into their Allyance whereas if he has once declar'd himself he has lost the satisfaction of being a spectator of the difference and one of the contending parties must look upon him as an enemy though the reasons and motives he had to appear against him be never so plausible CXCV. IT is a hard question to decide whether be the more ambitious person he who is desirous to keep what he is possess'd of or he who endeavours to make new Conquests For many times great alterations are caus'd by him who is peaceably possess'd in regard the fear of losing begets in such persons the same inclinations which they have who would conquer Nay sometimes he who is possess'd does not think himself secure if he be not always in a readiness to make new acquests and to do that there is a necessity of having forces and those must be