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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	appear_v	young_a	youth_n	32	3	7.6011	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66762	The modern states-man. By G.W. Esq	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1653 (1653)	Wing W3172; ESTC R218029	60,150	275

him none knowing to what end and being arrived in Sicily he commanded 300 of the noblest and wealthiest Sicilian young Gentlemen to appear such a day with their horse and arms The time being come he demanded whether they were willing to go with him or no for he had rather they should now tell the truth than afterwards be unprofitable and unactive as such would be Wherupon one of them answered that if he were put to his choice he should rather stay at home Scipio commending him for his ingenuity and calling one of the 300 hundred Roman young men this youth saith he shall serve in your stead upon condition you will furnish him with horse and arms and take him home and exercise and teach him which he joyfully consenting to all the rest presently desired a dismission upon the same terms Thus raised he a gallant Troop which did him great service without charge to the Common-wealth whose treasury was emptyed by a long and chargeable war and obliged the Sicilians and their friends by dismissing their persons from a dangerous war upon so small and inconsiderable a condition as that seemed to them who would have given far more had they been put to their own choice And indeed it is not so much the tax as the manner of laying and levying it that begets distastes tumults insurrections and revolts Had Scipio laid this charge of providing horse and arms c. upon these Sicilian Gentlemen without any other circumstance what mutterings would there have been why should we above all others be thus used and what hatred would it have procured him whereas doing as he did first he seem'd to have a great confidence in their worth and valour to choose them out of the thousands of Sicily then a great regard of and civility to their persons by enquiring whether they were willing to serve or no Lastly a greater respect to their contentment than his own by so gentle and easie a dismission of them whom he had honoured above others and who by refusing to engage with him disappointed his hopes made void the great expectations he had of them and so by this means imposed an obligation upon them who in another way would have looked on it as a great discourtesie And as we find the benefit of Prudence in these so may we see the mischiefs which improvident rashness wrought in other examples As in Coriolanus who by his stubborn and harsh carriage brought banishment on himself a miserable war and disgrace upon his Countrey which at last caused his death Thus Terentius Varro by rashness and imprudency had almost ruined his Country in that fatal and bloody battail at Cannae And multitudes of other examples we shall meet with in all Histories yea and in our own dayly experience and observation CHAP. XXIII Of Justice and the Roman practice of it IT would be a thing of the smallest concernment both to know and choose what is good and to accomodate our actions to the exact circumstances of place time and persons unless we should acknowledge our selves obliged to vertuous actions and to a total obedience of all her lawes which is Justices part to teach whose praise were more proper for a prolix Oration than the narrow limits of our discourse Aristotle in brief calls it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the best of the vertues And Plato {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that neither the morning nor evening Star are so admirable Cicero in l. 3. offic. Justitia est virtus excellentissima splendidissima omnium virtutum regina ac domina And Scalig. Exercit. 307. Sect. 3. Justitia est conservatrix conjunctionis humanae quae conjunctio ad beatitudinem magna v●a est Indeed it is the use of other vertues towards others {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} For as the Philosopher there are many that can be vertuous for their own concernment who in other mens will faulter Therefore as Cicero Justitia foras spectat totamque se ad alienas utilitates porrigit atque explicat Justice will teach them to act vertuously towards others It is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a good to others and indeed the most beautiful perfect and best vertue For he is the most vertuous {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} who is good to others here lies the point hic labor hoc opus est To make profit pleasure revenge c. give the way to vertue to right and equity It is called by the Greeks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by the Latines Justitia and it is either general which consists in a vertuous obedience of all lawes tending to the preservation of humane society and this is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} an universall vertue according to that of the Proverb {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Or particular which is a keeping a mean and aequality in all those things in which adversity or prosperity hath to do or wherein fortune rules to give the definition of both according to Aristotle {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} it is an habit apting men to just actions whereby they are enabled to do and will just things Nowfor to handle this at large I suppose would be to little purpose there being none that perceive not that it is the chief duty as being of general concernment of the Magistrate to look well to the exercise of this vertue I shall onely therefore hint in some cases which are essentiall to the welbeing of a State As first in cases of publick danger the particular members of a State are bound in justice to help the publick with their private stocks thus we shall find in the Roman State Liv. dec 3. l. 6. They brought in all their Gold Silver and coined Brass reserving only enough for an Ornament of distinction and for the publick service of their Gods into the Common treasury and you shall have a motive Respublicaincolumis privatas res facile salvas praestet publica prodendo tua nequicquam serves Secondly the Magistrate after the danger is past is in Justice bound to see these publick debts sati●fyed there being nothing more to be preserved inviolable than the publick faith Besides Prudence teaches this for if the people perceive them negligent in their publick trust it will make them refractory and careless in their private duties We shall instance no further than in trading a man once breaking his word will never be trusted upon his bond and it would be a sad plunge to put a State to get another State to be bound for them and an impossibilty to find any private security for such large sums The third thing required by Justice is That the Magistrate ought not in the least to incroach upon the right of particular persons further than the common necessity or good requires thus in the beforementioned place we shall find that first the Consuls then the Senate then