A survey of history: or, A nursery for gentry . rincipality like this : for it brings man to anhigher Imperial! Scate^thanali the deluding pro-miles of this fpongie world can polliMy atford him. T hefc Obfervations are Receipts, or Cordialsagaind: the maladies of Fortune: A man thus re-folvedj cannot be lededian a Prince; fcrheegc-vernesa Dominirnm^:^re domineering^ anEm-pire more imperious 5 aDiarchy, or Monarchyrather rhavingdiiconfortingaflcftions ever lay-ing Siege and Battery to the Pa! Ke rit\\Q Soulcjwhich moved PlutArch in his Monls dcfinicivelyto concludes ThAt he who modcratedhis afe


A survey of history: or, A nursery for gentry . rincipality like this : for it brings man to anhigher Imperial! Scate^thanali the deluding pro-miles of this fpongie world can polliMy atford him. T hefc Obfervations are Receipts, or Cordialsagaind: the maladies of Fortune: A man thus re-folvedj cannot be lededian a Prince; fcrheegc-vernesa Dominirnm^:^re domineering^ anEm-pire more imperious 5 aDiarchy, or Monarchyrather rhavingdiiconfortingaflcftions ever lay-ing Siege and Battery to the Pa! Ke rit\\Q Soulcjwhich moved PlutArch in his Monls dcfinicivelyto concludes ThAt he who modcratedhis afeHions^n^ois halfc vertuous s l^ut hct that never pafi the bounds 64 b§unds4nd limits pf temfer4ti motives^ n^r feltthcj deluding enforcements pfW4mty dffauUinghim:, was whillj vertuons. But the Moi als pr(>po-(ttion WAS better than his condufion : For noniorcall (fince the Ibine of his Original! Purity)c uldcver fubfifl: fo fecure, or remainc ib un-moveable , as never to be engaged to perturba-tion^ 5 the natiirall attendants of N thisfirftentrancetomydifcourft, ha-ving (pokenfome-thing in generally ofthcule and fruit of Hiltory : haying byan (equal! Diameter) determined the proper _.,.,^.. pl^^cc and Centre at which fuch Hiftoricalf Rcla- ought to tend; I willdefcendtothedivifi-Sncucr^ ^^^ Hidories, which may properly branch themfelvcs into Divine 3 Difcurfivc, ^Morall,Phylick, orMixt. ^ Divifion vfHi(\orici;Oi mitr. InS9ff j pOr Divine, I will not comprehend them mj ^ my Di(courfc, being fiich as depend on theirownc Arches, drained frcm the pure Spring ofCalcftiall Wilcdome, and therefore impoflibletoerreeitherin Aftionor Rclation:yet ncccfla-rily (now and then) immixcd with Morall Hi-ftorics, bccaufe their weight may bctterpoifeintheScalc ofcvcry Judicious Render, when hefccth Monill Difccurfcrowcll fortificd^as by thePillar rf Truth. Albeit I :ippTovc of HcfcdstrTUt^ wortis; Fabulow RelationsJhould not, nor ought ^ *^;! JS^urfiryfor G B^TRT,


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