Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00437	The lyves, of philosophers and oratours: vvritten in Greeke, by Eunapius, of the cittie of Sardeis in Lydia. Brought into light, translated into Latine, and dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, our moste gracious princesse and soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth. By the great learned man, Hadrianus Iunius Hornanus. 1568. And now set foorth in English, at his request: and dedicated to the right Honourable, the Lord Chauncellour of England. 1579; Vitae sophistarum. English	Eunapius, ca. 345-ca. 420.; Junius, Hadrianus, 1511-1575.	1579 (1579)	STC 10566; ESTC S101779	59,568	112

THE LYVES Of Philosophers and Oratours Written in Greeke by Eunapius of the Cittie of Sardeis in Lydia Brought into light Translated into Latine and Dedicated to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie our moste gracious Princesse and Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth By the great learned man Hadrianus Iunius Hornanus 1568. And now set foorth in English at his request and Dedicated to the right Honourable the Lord Chauncellour of England 1579. Wherein may be seene The deepe knowledge of Philosophie The wonderfull workes of secrete Artes. The maruelous effects of perfight eloquence The singuler giftes of naturall qualities The enuie of the ambitious against the learned The daingerous dayes that then befell for faythe The one of Christians the other of Infidels ❧ Imprinted at London by Richard Iohnes and are to be solde at his shop ouer against S. Sepulchres Church without Newgate The xx daye of May. ❧ To the right Honorable Sir Thomas Bromley Knight one of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsel and Lorde Chauncellour of England MAy it like your good Lordship The renowmed sentence of diuine Plato so oft celebrated in Dedication of Bookes to Princies and great personages wherein he affirmeth that those States dooflorish where Kinges be Philosophers or Philosophers be Kinges seemeth not so sound to some that are professours of the Doctrine of the same Plato For they that are occupied in publique affaires be wont to leaue the studies of learning because the life full of busines taketh awaye the leysure of the learned And the nearer we approche to Iupiter who is Lord of gouernment the further we straye from Mercurie who is Prince of learning Moreouer the Sunne signifieth Magistrates and Honours and Saturne betokeneth Philosophers and Letters whose kingdoms houses in heauē be contrary one to another Thē what Prince cā be a philosopher or what Philosopher shal be a Prince To this an aunswer is made by Plotinus who is the first Philosopher that is spoken of in this worke That the minde of mā is more mightier then the nature of the Heauens and earth and so bringeth to passe that the one dooth not promise nor the other permit Then to let this stand as it did They haue beene accoumpted to be Philosophers that studieth to know the causies of diuine humaine things to teache and follow the way of good life of the which they were called Maisters of vertue Diuines of the earth who as sacred Ministers should speake and doo nothing but that should tend to godlines Of these so rare men Eunapius hath vvritten the second race of the chiefe learned florishing frō the reignes of Galienus and Tacitus xiii hundred yeares past vnto the time of Theodotius or there aboute This Booke laye hid in Hungarie tyll Hadrianus Iunius a great learned man did cause it to be Printed in Greeke and Translated it into Latine and a eleuen yeares since Dedicated it to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie our Soueraigne Lady Elizabeth and brought it ouer into England where hauing continued thus long is now become English and vnder the protection and authoritie of your Lordship he sueth beseecheth that it may be made of the English natiō And so being accepted remaining also a faithful member he may with feruent minde pray to the Lord of Lords for the longe preseruation of your Lordship in continuance of Honour and good lyking to the glory of God the contentacion of the Prince and commoditie of the Countrie H. I. H. ❧ The Epistle of Adrianus Iunius to the Queenes Maiestye ¶ To the moste gracious and mightye Elizabeth of Englande Fraunce and Irelande Queene THe saying of Plato is commonly spoken and vsed in euery mans mouthe and yet I doubt if it be of euery man so well vnderstanded moste Gracious Queene that kingdomes are happy where either Princies be Philosophers and geuen to Learning or Sapient and learned men doo gouerne Kingdomes The which saying containeth more inwardlie then it sheweth outwardly as I thinke For whereas Plato the fowntaine of Wisdom doth propound two officies and chargies of Philosophie that is to know diuine things and to gouerne humaine matters he ment that then Commonwealthes and Kingdomes should be happy blessed when Princes should haue the knowledge of God heauēly things And being instructed with that knowledge would minister the law purely study for the publike weale keepe the people in obedience These be the two Anchores which the Thebane Poet thought meet to be cast to stay the ship that is tossed with the tempest These be the two Nurses which Antiquitie assigned to Iupiter Ite and Adrastia The one moderatrice of right the other distributrice of holy and iust Diotimus thought these to be necessary ministracies to the gouernment and preseruation of kingdomes Iustinian the Emperour being instructed by great plenty of learned men knew none other Philosophy when he comprehended the prudence of the law within the compasse of her barres and affirmed it was the knowledge of diuine and humaine thinges This Philosophy the moste learned Poet ioyneth together in Anio whome when he maketh both a King and a Prieste by the example of the Iewes what els doth he meane to shewe but that he had knowledge of diuine things ruled his people iustly by lawes of authority These artes which be surer and stronger Locke● then those wherewith Philippe of Macedonie saide he held Grecia being giuen to you from God dooth maruelously bewtifie your Kingdom moste gracious Queene for as much as beinge so instructed you knowe how to rule and maintaine bothe partes And for as much as after the example of Chrysanthas of Xenophon making no difference betweene a good Prince and a good Father you beare and shew the affection of a parent toward your subiects and being constant in cleamencie you are cleare from crudelitie In this following Agis Kinge of Lacedaemonia who sayd that a Kinge might gouerne his Realme without force of armes if he woulde gouerne his Subiects as a Father dooth his Children in as much as by the diuine artes of peace you adorne enritche and that I may vse the sacred worde you do sanctifye your most florishing Kingdome Hereof it is that among the chiefe ornamentes of this world you are accompted the onely Queene and exalted with moste exceeding praise Plato the Prince of witte and fountaine of pure Philosophie did thinke that to proper names their was a certaine diuine strength agreeable to nature and that moste truelye For what name coulde more aptlye be giuen to the nature of your Maiestie then that which she hath as in the which dooth shine a most certaine and vndoubted testimony of God euen that same which the word signifieth with the Hebrewes that is An holesome and sweete studie of peace a friend of Heauen comming from none other place but from Heauen engrafted to you in your byrth to the which streight from the Cradell succeeded the helpe of singuler and rare learning