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A Diſcourſe
Book I.
and lastly elsewhere: My Father! My Country! So that he who is not affected with these things: he on whom the wedge and weight of so many invading Evils can work nothing, must certainly be either a very temperate and wise person, or exceedingly hard hearted.
Chap. VIII.
Publick Evils oppos'd. Three Affections restrain'd: and of these; First, a certain Ambitious Simulation, by which Men lament their own misfortunes as Publick Evils.
What think you Lipsius have I not seem'd sufficiently to prevaricate with my Constancy, and to plead the Cause of your Grief? Yet I have done but as couragious and
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