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A02237
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The counsellor Exactly pourtraited in two bookes. VVherein the offices of magistrates, the happie life of subiectes, and the felicitie of common-weales is pleasantly and pithilie discoursed. A golden worke, replenished with the chiefe learning of the most excellent philosophers and lawgiuers, and not onely profitable, but verie necessarie for all those that be admitted to the administration of a well-gouerned common-weale. Written in Latin by Laurentius Grimaldus, and consecrated to the honour of the Polonian empyre. Newlie translated into English.; De optimo senatore. English
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Goślicki, Wawrzyniec, 1530-1607.
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1598
(1598)
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STC 12372; ESTC S106731
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134,196
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158
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A45744
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A treatise of moral and intellectual virtues wherein their nature is fully explained and their usefulness proved, as being the best rules of life ... : with a preface shewing the vanity and deceitfulness of vice / by John Hartcliffe ...
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Hartcliffe, John, 1651-1712.
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1691
(1691)
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Wing H971; ESTC R475
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208,685
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468
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A86417
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Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, A dissertation concerning man in his severall habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is, and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment and subjection. / By Tho: Hobbes.; De cive. English
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.
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1651
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Wing H2253; Thomason E1262_1; ESTC R202404
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220,568
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406
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A45613
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The common-wealth of Oceana
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Harrington, James, 1611-1677.
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1656
(1656)
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Wing H809; ESTC R18610
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222,270
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308
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A61158
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The history of the Royal-Society of London for the improving of natural knowledge by Tho. Sprat.
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Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. To the Royal Society.
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1667
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Wing S5032; ESTC R16577
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253,666
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459
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A00698
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A vvoorke of Ioannes Ferrarius Montanus, touchynge the good orderynge of a common weale wherein aswell magistrates, as priuate persones, bee put in remembraunce of their dueties, not as the philosophers in their vaine tradicions haue deuised, but according to the godlie institutions and sounde doctrine of christianitie. Englished by william Bauande.; De republica bene instituenda, paraenesis. English
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Ferrarius, Johannes, 1485 or 6-1558.; Bavand, William.
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1559
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STC 10831; ESTC S102013
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301,803
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438
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A27004
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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
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Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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1667
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Wing B1367; ESTC R5892
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599,557
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672
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A45618
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The Oceana of James Harrington and his other works, som [sic] wherof are now first publish'd from his own manuscripts : the whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an exact account of his life prefix'd / by John Toland.
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Harrington, James, 1611-1677.; Toland, John, 1670-1722.
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1700
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Wing H816; ESTC R9111
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672,852
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605
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A05094
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The French academie wherin is discoursed the institution of maners, and whatsoeuer els concerneth the good and happie life of all estates and callings, by preceptes of doctrine, and examples of the liues of ancient sages and famous men: by Peter de la Primaudaye Esquire, Lord of the said place, and of Barree, one of the ordinarie gentlemen of the Kings Chamber: dedicated to the most Christian King Henrie the third, and newly translated into English by T.B.; Academie françoise. Part 1. English
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La Primaudaye, Pierre de, b. ca. 1545.; Bowes, Thomas, fl. 1586.
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1586
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STC 15233; ESTC S108252
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683,695
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844
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