Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	esq_n	honourable_a	sir_n	24,823	5	8.4523	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57355	The arts of empire and mysteries of state discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms, grounded on authority and experience, and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / by the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh ; published by John Milton, Esq.; Cabinet-council	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1692 (1692)	Wing R155; ESTC R20812	78,456	250

from Charlemain And albeit the Families of the Paleologi Ebrami and Turcani be of the blood Royal and Right Heirs to the Turkish Empire when the Ottoman Line shall fail yet it is like that the chief Bassa having the love of the Janisaries will usurp the State because the Paleologi and other Competitors be far from the Turks person poor and without means to purchase the Soldiers favor A Commander General in Arms ought upon pain of great punishment be enjoyned not to imploy or retain any forces longer than the time of his Commission Example The Dictators of Rome were in this point so precise as never any of them dared to transgress the time prefixed till Caesar obtained that dignity should continue in him for life which was the cause of his usurpation of the State Also the Thebans commanded that if the General of their Army did hold his forces one day longer than the time prefixt he should thereby incur danger of death which Justice was executed upon Epaminondas and Pelopidas Banishment of great Lords or Citizens of great Reputation hath been in divers places diversly used for in the one they were inforced only to absent themselves without further infliction in the other Banishment was accompanied with Confiscation a course of great danger Example In Argos Athens Ephesus and other Cities of Greece the Citizens puissant in Friends Vertue or Riches were many times banish'd for Envy or Fear but never or very rarely forced to absent themselves longer than ten Years and that without loss of Goods which was the cause that never any of them Warred against the Country But Dion being banish'd Syracusa by Dionysius Junior and Coriolanus from Rome did make mighty Wars against their own Country The like was done by the Medici in Florence Honourable and Magnanimous Men were wont not only to enterprise great Acts but also to suffer patiently all Injuries which Foes or Fortune could expose them to As resolved that no Calamity was so great as to make their Minds abject or to forget the Dignity appertaining to Persons vertuous Example After the defeat of the Roman Army upon the River Allia the Galli persued the Victory even to Rome's Walls Whither being come and finding the Gates open without any sign of Resistance they entred the Streets where all Honourable Palaces were also unshut which caused the Galli greatly to doubt Nevertheless looking into the Houses they found in every of them a Senator set in a Chair of State and in his Hand a Rod of Ivory his Person was also vested with Robes of Dignity which Majestick spectacle did marvelously amate the Galli not having before that time seen any such Reverend Sight and therefore did not only refrain to offer Violence but highly admired the Roman Courage chiefly in that Fortune Nevertheless at length a rude Gall hapned with his Hand to touch the white Beard of M. Papyrius whereat he taking great disdain struck him with his Rod in requital whereof the Barbarian slew Papyrius and by that example all the other Senators and persons of dignity were also slain Albeit the knowledge and study of Letters be both commendable and necesssary in all well regulated States yet if under so honest pretence Idleness enter such Abuses most seasonably be foreseen and removed Example When Deognis and Carneades two excellent Philosophers were sent Ambassadors from Athens to the Romans many of the Nobility that before disposed themselves to Arms allured with their Eloquence and marvelous Wisdom began with great Admiration to follow them And in lieu of Arms turned their endeavours to the study of Letters which the wise Cato discerning procured the Senate to decree that to eschew all Inconveniences which so honest Idleness might breed no Philosophers should from thenceforth be received into Rome The Honour due to Magistrates was anciently much regarded and contrariwise all irreverent and undutiful Behaviour with great Severity punish'd Example The Censors of Rome degraded a Citizen only for having yawned loud in their Presence And another called Vectius was slain in the Field for not doing due reverence to a Tribune when he past by him It is also observed that the Son of Fab. Maximus when he was Censor meeting his Father on Horseback and seeing the Serjeans affraid to speak to him to dismount did himself Command him so to do which Command the Father cheerfully and willingly obeyed saying Domestick Power must give place to Publick Authority Tyrannous Princes having incurred the universal Hate of People found no means so meet to preserve them from Popular Fury as to execute or deliver into their Hands their own chief Minions and intimate Counsellors Example Tiberius delivered to the People his Fa vourite Seianus Nero Tigellinus Henry King of Swede committed to their Fury his best beloved Servant George Preston Caracalla caused all his Flatterers to be slain that had persuaded him to kill his Brother The like was done by Caligula whereby he escaped himself A Prince that rewards or pardons a Person that kills another Prince albeit by that means he is aspired to Soveraignty shall thereby both incur great Danger and Hate and encourage Men therein to attempt the like against himself Therefore wise Princes have not only left such Services quite unrecompenced but also most severely punished them Example The Emperor Sever●● put all those to death that consented to the Murder of Pertinax and Alexander the Great executed him that slew Darius as abhorring that Subject that would lay violent Hands on his Prince notwithstanding he were an Enemy Likewise Uitellius put to death all the Murderers and Conspirators against Galba and Domitian Executed his Secretary Epaphroditus for the Murder of Nero although he instantly desired his aid The vertuous and vitious Examples of Princes incite Subjects to imitate the same Qualities which Rule never or very rarely fails Example Francis the First King of France and other Princes in divers Ages and Places had great esteem of Learned Men and forth with all the Princes Nobles Nobility and Clergy disposed themselves so earnestly to study as before that time had not been seen so many and so great a number of Learned Men as well in Tongues as Sciences Contrariwise Alexander the Great otherwise a Prince of great Vertue by his immoderate use of Drinking did draw the greatest number of his Court and People also to delight in Drunkenness The like effect followed the excessive Intemperance of Mithridates King of Amasia The last and not the least considerable is to observe how great effects Devotion and Contempt of Human Glory worketh in the Minds not only of private Persons but of Kings and Princes also who have oft abandoned worldly Profit Honour and Pleasure to embrace the con templative retired Life Example Ramirus King of Aragon Verecundus King of Spain Charlemain Son of Carolus Martellus Matilda Queen of France Amurath King of Turbay with many others Imperio Maximus exemplo Major FINIS Books Printed for and sold by Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard viz. THE History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by the English to this present Time in two Parts By the Honourable Richard Cox Esq one of the present Judges for that Kingdom Folio The Right Honourable the Marquis of Carmarthen's State of his Case Folio His Answer to the Examination of the State of his Case Folio His Answer to Sir Robert Howard's Book Folio His Reply to some Libels lately Printed Folio Tryal of the Lord Russel Folio Character of a Popish Successor Folio The World's Mistake in Oliver Cromwel By Sl. Bethel Esq Quarto Satyr against Hypocrites Quarto No Protestant Plot 1st 2d and 3d. Parts Quarto Diarry of His Majesty's Expedition into England Quarto Hunton's Treatise of Monarchy in two Parts Quarto The Earl of Rochester's Funeral Sermon Quarto The Present Settlement Vindicated and the late Mis-government proved Quarto Rushworth's Historical Collections from 1618. to 1629. James's Corruption of Popish Father's Counsels c. Octavo The True Nature of the Divine Law c. Octavo Reformed Devotions in Meditations Hymns and Petitions for every Day in the Week Twelves The Excellent Woman described by her true Characters and their Opposites Octavo An Earnest Invitation to the Sacrament By Dr. Glanvill Twelves At which Place may be had Acts of Parliament Proclamations Declarations Orders of King and Council Speeches in Parliament Choice Pamphlets both Ancient and New Tryals Narratives and Gazzetts * Commissions determine in presence of him that granted them * So Henry the Fourth of France by putting his Courtiers to Board-wages was said to make Money with his Teeth * The Author of the Epistle Dedicatory to the Dutchess of Suffolk prefix'd to Mr. Latimer's Sermons saith that Lawyers covetousness hath almost devoured England Discipline Tam bene quam male facta praemunt Mart.