. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . d *, as we fee in the Loadftone, which bytouching the Iron, and communicating its Virtue to it,lifts up a greater Weight than it could do by it if the Neceflity be great, it will fuffice, if the Princebe hard by, to Influence his Army, flaying in fomePlace, whence he may readily Confult, Refolve, andgive Orders : This was the Emperor Leopolds way, whoremoved fometimes to Aquileia, fometimes to Ravennaor Milan, to be near the Wars oí Hungary and Germany. £21) IpfeLugduni vim fortunamque Principatus é proximo oflentaret9vec pa)
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . d *, as we fee in the Loadftone, which bytouching the Iron, and communicating its Virtue to it,lifts up a greater Weight than it could do by it if the Neceflity be great, it will fuffice, if the Princebe hard by, to Influence his Army, flaying in fomePlace, whence he may readily Confult, Refolve, andgive Orders : This was the Emperor Leopolds way, whoremoved fometimes to Aquileia, fometimes to Ravennaor Milan, to be near the Wars oí Hungary and Germany. £21) IpfeLugduni vim fortunamque Principatus é proximo oflentaret9vec pa) vü periculis mixtus^ & mapribus non defuturm. Tac. Hift. 1. 4.(22) Poftquam pugnar i placitum, interetfe pugna Imperatorem, an feponimelius forety Paulino Cí Cetfo non adverfantibus, ne Prin-cipern objeftare periculis viderentur \ iidem iüi deterioris confilii perpulere,nt Brixsllum conderet, ac dubiis prdwum exemptus, fumma mum <& //»•pmi feipfum refervaret. Tac. Hift, 1. 2. * Lucan. EMBLEM Vol. ir. *7Í EMBLEM P Rudence is not always fortunate, nor Temerityalways unhappy: — Qitifauis faftt celeriter^ non Utto[apt, It is however good for fiery Tempers to follow the firílimpetus of Nature, becaufe by delay they cool infenfibly,and can never determine themfelves *, nor has it ufuallyan ill End (in War particularly) to let themfelves beled by that fecret Force of Second Caufes, which if itdoes not compelí, at leaft moves them fo, that with itthey feldom mifcarry. Some Divine Genius favoursDaring Actions» xy6 When the Caufe is Juft, Vol. IT. Scípio paiTes the Sea into Africa, and freely trufts him-felf to the Punfck Faith of Syphax, with apparent Rifqueof his Life, and the Publick Safety of Rome : Julius Cafarin a fmall Bark abandons himfelf to the Fury of theAdriatic}; and both fucceed in their Raihnefs. It isimpofllble for all things to be provided againft by Pru-dence j nor would any thing great be attempted, if thatfhould iland to con
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