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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...man in boldnes / B viii a with the temperate in moderacyon /with the good man in lIiI'tOCtfIiC_V & iuft dealing. He cared nat for the name / it was lufficient to hym to haue the dede /' & fo / the leffe he cared for glorye / the more alwayes he opteyned. Many fuche cOtn)ur_TOlts very profitable for this intent / are alfo in Plutarchc in his lmkc OITiOl)lt' mcnncs lyues. A goodly enl'.rtmlile'of this plate is in the Or: tc_'0n that l ltfI'itiOl;i1l.' ' From Ii. /1/.. exeellent. ' ll. fyttyntfe. I I5. cns.i/uple. THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE $7 Barbarus made to the emperour Frederike and Maximilian his fon / whiche for bicaufe it is so long I let it paffe. A lyke enfample is in Tullyes oracyon / that he made to the people of Rome for Pompeyus / to be fent agaynfte Mythrydates. Some there be that deuide the landes' of perfons into thre kyndes of goodes begynnynge the narracion at them / whiche thynge our author dothe not greatly commende / but rather in reherfyng of any perfons dedes / yf theyr can nat be kept an order of hiftorie/ and many thynges mul't be fpoken. It were after his mynde befte to touche fyrft his actes done by prudence/& nexte by iul'tice / thyrdely by fortitude' of the mynde / and laft by temperaunce / and f0 to gather the narracion out of this foure cardinall vertues. As if one t'huld prayfe faint Auften / after that he hath spoken of his parentele B viii b and bryngynge vp in youth /and is come to the reherfall of his actes/ they may be conueniently diftrihuted into the places of vertues. On this maner dyd Tully prayfe Pompey. 1 fuppofe(fayeth he) that in hym that shulde be a hed capitayne ouer a great army ought to be four thynges. Knowlege of werre/ valiantnes/...

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