item: #1 of 25 id: A10362 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Sir Walter Raleighs instructions to his sonne and to posterity date: 1632 words: 5847 flesch: 57 summary: I would not have you for any respect loose your reputation , or endure publike disgrace ; for better it were not to live then to live a coward , if the offence proceed not from thy selfe , if it bee it shall bee better to compound it upon good termes , then to hazard thy selfe , for if thou overcome , thou art under the crueltie of the Law , if thou be overcome thou art dead , or dishonoured ; If thou therefore contend , or discourse in argument , let it bee with Wise and sober Men , of which thou mayest learne by reasoning , and not with ignorant persons , for thou shalt thereby instruct those : that will not thanke thee , and utter what they have learned from thee , but if thou know more then other Men , utter it when it may doe thee honour , and not in assemblies of ignorant , & common persons : The third is , that thou suffer not thy selfe to be wounded for other Mens faults , and scourged for other Mens offences , which is , to bee suerty for another , for thereby millions of Men have beene beggered and destroyed , paying the reckoning of other Mens ryot , and the charge of other Mens folly , and prodigality ; if thou smart for thy owne sin , the paine is endured with some ease , and above all things bee not made an Asse to carry the burden of other Men ; If thy friend desire thee to bee his suretie , give him a part of what thou hast to spare , if hee presse thee farther , hee is not thy friend at all , for friendship rather chooseth harme to it selfe then offereth it , if thou be bound for a stranger , thou art a foole , if for a Marchant , thou puttest thy estate to learne to swimme ; If for a Churchman , he hath no inheritance ; if for a Lawyer , hee will find an evasion by a syllable , or word to abuse thee ; if for a poore Man thou must pay it thy selfe , therefore from Suretiship as from a Man-slayer , or enchanter for the best profit , and returne will bee this , that if thou force him for whom thou art bound to pay it himselfe , hee wil become thy enemie , if thou use to pay it thy selfe , thou wilt be a begger , and beleeve thy Father in this , and print it in thy thoughts , that what vertue soever thou hast , bee it never so manifold , if thou be poore withall , thou , and thy qualities shall be despised ; besides , Poverty is ofttimes sent as a curse of God it is a chaine amongst Men , an imprisonment of the mind , a vexation of everie worthy spirit ; thou shalt neyther helpe thy selfe nor others , thou shalt drowne in thee all thy vertues , having no meanes to shew them , thou shalt bee a burthen , and Eye-sore of all thy friends , everie Man will scorne thy Company , thou shalt bee driven basely to begge , and depend on others , to flatter unworthy Men , to make dishonest shifts ; and to conclude , poverty provokes a Man to doe infamous and detested deedes ; Let no vanitie therefore , or perswasion draw thee to that worst of worldly miseries , if thou be rich , it will give thee pleasure in health , comfort in sicknesse , keywords: bee; chap; estate; god; life; man; men; selfe; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy cache: A10362.xml plain text: A10362.txt item: #2 of 25 id: A10368 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The life and death of Mahomet the conquest of Spaine together with the rysing and ruine of the Sarazen Empire. Written by Sr. Walter Raleigh Kt. date: 1637 words: 16898 flesch: 40 summary: being when his right , but yet his conscience accusing him of his wickednesse , hee feared revenge from those that were faithfull unto his Nephew● for prevention whereof some hee displaced from their goverments , other● were imprisoned , and many under colour o● Justice executed . Grown great and glorious with his victories , and at that time the Emperor of Constantinople and King of Persia being men of weake and tame Spirits , he invaded their Dominions , and with a conquering sword triumphed over Syria , the City of Jerusalem , the kingdome of Mesopotamia and Persia , the great City of Babylon with other Eastern Provinces ; of all which as of the Arabies , he styled himselfe King being now grown elde● by his inordinate life , in the state of his body then in yeeres , which exceded not fifty seven , full of glory , as well in regard of his large Empire , as in opinion of sanctity , in being esteemed a Prophet , and weary with warre , with a fained holynesse ( under which maske he intended to take his ease ) sequestred himself from publique affaires , committing the government of his estates to the Lievetenants within in three yeeres following , which was in Anno Domini 631 , the sixtith yeere of his Age , and the tenth of his Reign he died : Upon his death-bed he commended unto his principal Commanders , the care and use of his fantasticall Law , assuring them that it was agreeable to the will of God , and that so long as they and their posterity should hold and maintaine it , they should flourish . keywords: abilqualit; almanzor; day; death; don; father; foot; god; governor; hee; himselfe; horse; iulian; king; life; mahomet; men; mura; prince; rest; roderigo; shee; sonne; spaine; tarif; time; tunis; war; yeeres cache: A10368.xml plain text: A10368.txt item: #3 of 25 id: A10373 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The prerogative of parlaments in England proued in a dialogue (pro & contra) betweene a councellour of state and a iustice of peace / written by the worthy (much lacked and lamented) Sir W. R. Kt. ... ; dedicated to the Kings Maiesty, and to the House of Parlament now assembled ; preserued to be now happily (in these distracted times) published ... date: 1628 words: 26082 flesch: 69 summary: In the twenty eight yeare of that King was the acte of Resumption of all honours , townes , castles , Signieuries , villages , Manors , lands , tenements , rents , reversions , fees , &c. But because the wages of the Kings seruants , were by the strictnes of the acte also restrained , this acte of Resumption was expounded in the Parliament at Reading the 31 th yeare of the Kings reigne . In the Kings seuenteenth yeare was the Rebellion before spoken of , wherein King disavowed the Cardinall . keywords: bee; charter; covns; doe; duke; earle; england; estate; euery; france; giuen; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; house; ivst; king; lord; lordship; maiesty; majestie; man; owne; parliament; people; reason; sir; themselues; time; vnto; vpon; yeare cache: A10373.xml plain text: A10373.txt item: #4 of 25 id: A10378 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Tubus historicus an historicall perspective; discovering all the empires and kingdomes of the vvorld, as they flourisht respectively under the foure imperiall monarchies. Faithfully composed out of the most approved authours, and exactly digested according to the supputation of the best chronologers. (With a catalogue of the kings and emperours of the chiefe nations of the world.) By the late famous and learned knight Sir Walter Raleigh. date: 1636 words: 2878 flesch: 62 summary: Divided into the Macedonian , which began A.M. 3648 , cōtinued 256 years . In the time of the first Monarchie there flourisht Kingdoms in ASIA Israëlitish Entire , began A.M. 2881. keywords: a.m.; asia; english; henry; kingdomes; kings; ptolemaeus; tcp; text; world; yeares cache: A10378.xml plain text: A10378.txt item: #5 of 25 id: A25867 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The arraignment and conviction of Sr VValter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire, Lord Henry Howard, Lord Cecill, Lord Wotton, Sir John Stanhope Lord Chiefe Justice of the Common-pleas, Popham and Andrewes, Justice Gaudy, Justice Warberton, Sir William Wade, commissioners. / Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury. date: 1648 words: 13485 flesch: 60 summary: Proceedings against Sir Walter Rawleigh knight, at the Kings Bench-barre, in Westminster, the 28. of October, 1618 -- Sir Walter Rawleigh's lettet [sic] to the king the night before his death -- A copy of Sir Walter Rawleighs letter to his wife, the night before his death. keywords: accusation; atturney; death; god; hath; hee; justice; king; law; letter; lord; lord cobham; man; master; rawleigh; sir; sir walter; vvalter cache: A25867.xml plain text: A25867.txt item: #6 of 25 id: A34856 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: England's interest asserted, in the improvement of its native commodities; and more especially the manufacture of wool plainly shewing its exportation un-manufactured, amounting unto millions of loss to His Majesty, and kingdom. With some brief observations of that worthy author Sir Walter Rawley, touching the same. All humbly presented to His Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament. By a true lover of His Majesty, and native country. Licensed by Roger L'estrange. date: 1669 words: 22667 flesch: 34 summary: In the Southern parts of the world , is by all Admired , though by none to be valued , and what strength of shipping these two Companyes have produced , as they have been wonderful , so they have been formedable to all Nations : what Contribution the Cloathing Trade with Spain and France hath given to Englands maritin power , is by those Countrys themselves feared , as well as by England found to its great security : And as these unvaluable blessings have befallen England by the Trade of Cloathing , politickly and providently drawn into Societies , Companyes , and Corporations ; so the loose Transactions of Trade in other for the Countreys have rendered them so poor at Sea ; as were it not shipping of England and Holland , the very life of Commerce would perish , would return to the same Wilderness , & uselessness as it is now in Greenland and the West-Indies , where civil Government hath not once been heard of . THat this rich Treasure in it self , of far more worth than the Golden Mines of India to England , is so much degenerated , or adulterated in the Manufactureing thereof by many of the Manufactors , some of which wanting skill , others principles of honesty , the Laws in that case being so much neglected in England , and want of some new Laws for the new Drapers , hath occasioned the woollen Manufacture to be rendered contemptible both at home and abroad , and so much the more , or the rather , because the Dutch , Flemins , ( and it is feared in time the French also ) do by care and industry indeavour to excel our English ; the consequence is to loose our English Trade , and this principally by a liberty taken , so that honest and conscientious persons come to dammage by some others false way of gains , according to Mr. Childes third head in that of Trade , and Interest ; that the Advantage the Dutch have of us in all their Native Commodities is their exactness , by which meanes their credit is so , that it is taken by its contents , ( and ours not ) which is very advantageous , which is done by the qualifications of those persons that have the oversight , and are intrusted in that affair , which is not done in England , but generally the contrary . keywords: advantage; cloathing; commodities; england; english; france; french; good; hath; kingdom; majesties; majesty; merchants; nation; parts; people; persons; pounds; ships; time; trade; wool; work; year cache: A34856.xml plain text: A34856.txt item: #7 of 25 id: A35994 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: A discourse of sea-ports principally the port and haven of Dover / written by Sir Walter Rawleigh and address'd to Queen Elizabeth ; with useful remarks &c, on that subject by command of His late Majesty K. Charles the second. date: 1700 words: 7030 flesch: 39 summary: I concluded with this General Incitement to his Majesty , That Multiplicity of Ports in a Maritim Kingdom , ( such as his ) was above all things to be wish'd ; which in times of Peace was a great Means of Encouragement to our Naval Intercourse , and Coasting Trade , whereby our Capital City became better supply'd , and at Cheaper Rates , with all things needful ; that Seamen were Proportionably Propagated , Shipping and all the Incident Professions of Shipwrightry and Navigation increas'd and improv'd , &c. That in time of War , Shelter , and Defence against an Enemy was by that means more at Hand , whereby our Commerce was better Preserv'd , our Frontier so much the stronger , and Cruizers had more dispatch ; and were better Spread and Dispos'd at Sea ; because wheresoever there are Ports Commodiously Situate , and in the Road of our Commerce , there of course will be Men of War appointed and Entertain'd in times of Hostility , where they can Clean , Victual and Refit , whereby great Expedition ( which is the Life of Action ) wou'd be obtain'd , and half the time gain'd that was spent in going to Remote Ports , as the Thames , Chatham , Portsmouth , &c. Where , if the Wind hangs out of the way , Ships lye long on Demorage , become Fowl by Staying for a Wind , and lose many Occasions of Service , which in Ports lying upon the Edge of our Channel , as Dover does , can never happen ; where you need no Pylotage , and are no sooner out of the Haven but you are at Sea. But in the whole Circuit of this your Majesty's Famous Island , there is not any one either in Respect of Security and Defence , or of Traffick or Intercourse , more Convenient , Needful , or rather of Necessity to be Regarded than this of Dover , Situate on a Promontory next Fronting a Puissant Foreign King , and in the very streight Passage and Intercourse of almost all the Shipping of Christendom . keywords: coast; cou'd; dover; haven; majesty; ports; sea; shipping; tcp; text; time; work cache: A35994.xml plain text: A35994.txt item: #8 of 25 id: A47317 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: A Cleare and evident way for enriching the nations of England and Ireland and for setting very great numbers of poore on work date: 1650 words: 8076 flesch: 64 summary: And although it seems but small Duties which they receive ; yet the multitudes of all kind of Commodities and Coyn is so great that is brought in by themselvs & others , and carried out by themselves and others , that they receive more Customes and Duties to the State ( by the greatnesse of their Comerce ) in one yeare , then England doth in two ; for the hundreth part of Commodities are not spent in Holland , but ven●●d into other Countries ; which maketh all the Country , Merchants , to buy and sell , and increase ships and mariners to transport them . On the contrary , the Duke of Florence builded Ligo●● , and set small Customes upon merchandise , gave them great and pleasing Priviledges ; which hath made that a rich and strong City , with a flourishing State and Trade . keywords: commodities; countries; england; increase; mariners; merchants; nations; people; ships; trade; ● ● cache: A47317.xml plain text: A47317.txt item: #9 of 25 id: A47319 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Sir Walter Raleigh's observations, touching trade & commerce with the Hollander, and other nations, as it was presented to K. James wherein is proved, that our sea and land commodities serve to inrich and strengthen other countries against our owne ... date: 1653 words: 11292 flesch: 54 summary: Lamentable it is , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ld be deprived of so 〈◊〉 Millions , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of c●…th 〈◊〉 of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 naturall 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , should be driven ●…o 〈◊〉 s●…ll advantage of 〈◊〉 and profit to your 〈◊〉 and people and so much impr●…v d and 〈◊〉 by strangers , considering that God hath in●…d , and 〈◊〉 your M●…sty power to advance 〈◊〉 and dying , and transporting of 〈◊〉 your cloaths , within a yeare or two ; I speake it knowingly , to shew how it may be done 〈◊〉 , lawfully and approved to be honourable , s●…asable , and profitable . and about 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●…st we s●…nt st●… of 〈◊〉 sh●…ps to trade in those p●…s , and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●…st we s●…t o●…●…t f●… and this last yeare two or three ; 〈◊〉 to the contrary the 〈◊〉 about twenty years 〈◊〉 traded 〈◊〉 with two ships on●…ly , yet now they are increas●…d to about thirty or forty , and one of their ships is as great as two of ours , and at the same time ( in their troubles there ) that we decreased , they increased , and the chiefest Commodities they carry with them thither , is , English Cloath , Herrings taken in our Seas , English Lead and Pewter made of our Tin , besides other Commodities ; all which wee may doe better then they . keywords: commodities; good; great; hath; increase; kingdome; land; majesty; merchants; nations; owne; people; profit; sea; ships; time; trade cache: A47319.xml plain text: A47319.txt item: #10 of 25 id: A57347 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Sir Walter Rawleigh his apologie for his voyage to Guiana by Sir Walter Rawleigh. date: 1650 words: 11512 flesch: 28 summary: Keymis , whereas you were resolved after your arrivall into Orrenoque to passe to the Myne with my Cousen Harbert and six musketteers , and to that end you desired to have Sir Iohn Fernes sh●llop , I doe not allow of that course , because you cannot Land so secretly but that some Indians on the River side may discover you , who giving knowledge of your passage to the Spaniards you may be cut off before you can recover your Boa●e , I doe therefore advise you to suffer the Captaines and the Companies of ●●e English ●o passe up to the Westward of the mountaine Aio , from whence you have no l●sse then three mi●es to the Myne , and to lodge and encam●e between the Spanish Towne and you , if there be any To●n neer it , that bei●g so s●●●red you may make try all what depth and br●dth the Myne ●o●ds , and whe●●er or no it answer our ●o●es . He sent me for answer that he thought we had beene the Tu●kish Fleet , which destroyed Puerto Sancto , but being resolved by the Messenger that we were Christians and English , and sought nothing but water , he would willingly afford us as much as we pleased to take , if he might be assured that we would not attempt his Towne-Houses , nor destroy the Gardens and fruits ; I returned him answer that I would give him my Faith , and the word of the King of Great Brittaigne my Soveraigne Lord , that the People of the Town and Island should not loose so much as one Orange or a Grape w●thout paying for it , I would hang him up in the Market-street . keywords: captaine; country; english; guiana; king; land; majesty; man; master; men; myne; peace; river; selfe; sir; spaine; spaniards; towne cache: A57347.xml plain text: A57347.txt item: #11 of 25 id: A57355 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The arts of empire and mysteries of state discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms, grounded on authority and experience, and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / by the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh ; published by John Milton, Esq. date: 1692 words: 40309 flesch: 60 summary: The Disposition of Men is divers ; some are apt to Anger , some are Hardy , some Fearful ; it therefore behoveth the Prince to accommodate his Government to the Humor of People whom he governeth : Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos . The means to maintain such a Monarchy , is , First , To extinguish the Race of him that was anciently Prince . keywords: actions; arms; authority; cause; chap; command; council; country; course; doth; end; enemy; est; evil; example; experience; fear; fit; force; fortune; general; good; government; hate; hath; having; hold; king; laws; love; magistrates; man; means; men; multitude; nature; necessity; occasion; offend; oft; peace; people; persons; power; prince; publick; quality; reason; respect; rome; soldiers; state; subjects; tac; things; time; use; vertue; victory; war; wisdom cache: A57355.xml plain text: A57355.txt item: #12 of 25 id: A57360 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The cabinet-council containing the cheif [sic] arts of empire and mysteries of state : discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms grounded on authority, and experience : and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / by the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh ; published by John Milton, Esq. date: 1658 words: 40636 flesch: 61 summary: And that Monarchy may be said to b● governed Aristocratically , when the Monarch imparteth the principal Honors and Offices to the Noble and Rich men only . First , for that men naturally inclined to variation are easily induced ●o take arms against him that newly governeth . keywords: actions; arms; authority; cause; chap; city; command; council; course; danger; desire; doth; end; enemy; est; example; experience; fear; fit; force; fortune; general; good; government; hate; hath; having; hold; honor; king; laws; life; like; love; magistrates; man; matter; means; men; ministers; multitude; nature; necessity; occasion; offend; pag; peace; people; persons; power; prince; profit; publick; punishment; quality; reason; respect; romans; rome; soldiers; state; subjects; tac; things; time; use; vertue; victory; war; whereof; wisdom; ● ● cache: A57360.xml plain text: A57360.txt item: #13 of 25 id: A57367 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: A discourse of sea-ports principally of the port and haven of Dover / written by Sir Walter Rawleigh and address'd to Queen Elizabeth ; with useful remarks, &c., on that subject, by command of His late Majesty, K. Charles the Second. date: 1700 words: 7041 flesch: 38 summary: I concluded with this General Incitement to his Majesty , That Multiplicity of Ports in a Maritim Kingdom , ( such as his ) was above all things to be wish'd ; which in times of Peace was a great Means of Encouragement to our Naval Intercourse , and Coasting Trade , whereby our Capital City , became better supply'd , and at Cheaper Rates , with all things needful ; that Seamen were Proportionably Propagated , Shipping and all the Incident Professions of Shipwrightry and Navigation increas'd and improv'd , &c. That in time of War , Shelter , and Defence against an Enemy was by that means more at Hand , whereby our Commerce was better Preserv'd , our Frontier so much the stronger , and Cruizers had more dispatch ; and were better Spread and Dispos'd at Sea ; because wheresoever there are Ports Commodiously Situate , and in the Road of our Commerce , there of course will be Men of War appointed and Entertain'd in times of Hostility , where they can Clean , Victual and Refit , whereby great Expedition ( which is the Life of Action ) wou'd be obtain'd , and half the time gain'd that was spent in going to Remote Ports , as the Thames , Chatham , Portsmouth , &c. Where , if the Wind hangs out of the way , Ships lye long on Demorage , become Fowl by Staying for a Wind , and lose many Occasions of Service , which in Ports lying upon the Edge of our Channel , as Dover does , can never happen ; where you need no Pylotage , and are no sooner out of the Haven but you are at Sea. But in the whole Circuit of this your Majesty's Famous Island , there is not any one either in Respect of Security and Defence , or of Traffick or Intercourse , more convenient , Needful , or rather of Necessity to be Regarded than this of Dover , Situate on a Promontory next Fronting a Puissant Foreign King , and in the very streight Passage and Intercourse of almost all the Shipping of Christendom . keywords: coast; cou'd; dover; haven; majesty; ports; sea; shipping; tcp; text; time; work cache: A57367.xml plain text: A57367.txt item: #14 of 25 id: A57374 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: A discovrse of the originall and fundamentall cause of naturall, customary, arbitrary, voluntary and necessary warre with the mystery of invasive warre : that ecclesiasticall prelates, have alwayes beene subject to temporall princes ... / by Sir Walter Rawleigh ... date: 1650 words: 9889 flesch: 58 summary: Neverthelesse , it is true , that as the Beasts are armed with fierce teeth , pawes , horns , and other bodily instruments of much advantage against unweaponed men , so hath reason taught man to strengthen his hand with such offensive Armes , as no creature else can well avoid or possibly resist . But since in humane reason there hath no meanes been found of holding all mankind at peace within it self : It is needfull that against the wit and subtilty of man , we oppose not only the bruit force of our bodyes , ( wherein many Beasts exceed us , ) but helping our strength with art and wisdome , strive to excell our enemies in those points wherein man is excellent over other Creatures . keywords: cause; empire; good; hath; king; kingdomes; land; lesse; men; owne; people; popes; princes; right; sword; text; warre; world cache: A57374.xml plain text: A57374.txt item: #15 of 25 id: A57453 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ... date: 1693 words: 10415 flesch: 59 summary: An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ... Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. 1693 Approx. An introduction to a breviary of the history of England with the reign of King William the I, entitled the Conqueror / written by Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. ... Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. keywords: earl; england; english; government; great; king; kingdom; men; new; normandy; normans; people; reign; son; state; tcp; text; time; william; years cache: A57453.xml plain text: A57453.txt item: #16 of 25 id: A57465 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Sir Walter Rawleighs judicious and select essayes and observations upon the first invention of shipping, invasive war, the Navy Royal and sea-service : with his apologie for his voyage to Guiana. date: 1667 words: 33964 flesch: 53 summary: They all have lighted on the invention of Bowes and Arrowes , All have Targets and woodden Swords : All have instruments to encourage them to fight : All that have Corne beate it in Morters , and make Cakes , baking them upon Slatestones : All devised Lawes without any grounds had from the Scriptures , or from Aristotles Politiques , whereby they are governed : All that dwell neere enemies impale their villages to save themselves from surprize , yea besides the same inventions , All have the same naturall impulsions , They follow nature in the choice of many wives , and there are every where among them , which out of a kind of wolvish ferocitie , eate mans flesh ; yea most of them beleive in a second life , and they are all of them Idolaters in one kind or other . Solutum ut in quibusdam fluminum & mutabile ut res possit hinc vel illinc remigium : Next are the Cities of the Suionum which are mighty at Sea , not only in men and armes , but in Fleete : The forme of their vessels differ in this , That a Prowe at each end enables them to row forward either way alike : Neither use they Sayles , nor place their oars in order upon the sides , but carrying the oare loose , They shift it hither and thither at pleasure , as is the manner in some Rivers , Yea at this time both the Turkes and Christians use these kind of Boats upon the River of Danubius , and call them Nacerne . keywords: captaine; country; doe; england; english; french; god; good; great; guiana; hath; himselfe; king; land; lesse; little; majesties; majesty; man; master; men; myne; nations; navy; ordnance; owne; parts; peace; places; popes; princes; reason; rest; river; sea; selfe; service; set; shipping; ships; sir; spaine; spaniards; things; time; trade; warre; water; world cache: A57465.xml plain text: A57465.txt item: #17 of 25 id: A57483 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Maxims of state written by Sir Walter Raleigh ; whereunto is added his Instructions to his sonne, and The son's advice to his aged father. date: 1650 words: 14375 flesch: 71 summary: Ga●l●rs , to keep prisons and Prisoners . 6 Of ●yranny . keywords: common; end; good; government; great; kingdom; magistrates; matters; means; people; power; prince; publick; rules; sophisms; sort; state; viz; wealth; ● ● cache: A57483.xml plain text: A57483.txt item: #18 of 25 id: A57518 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The pilgrimage written by Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, after his condemnation, the day before his death. date: 1681 words: 1203 flesch: 69 summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text cache: A57518.xml plain text: A57518.txt item: #19 of 25 id: A57525 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The prince, or, Maxims of state written by Sir Walter Ravvley ... date: 1642 words: 13677 flesch: 69 summary: As first for pre●erments , to provide that they bee rather small and short , then great and long ; And if any bee growne to overmuch greatnesse , to withdraw or diminish some part of his honour . As touching wealth , to provide , that tho●e of the middle sort ( as before was said ) bee more in number ; and if any grow high , and overcharged with wealth , to use the Sophismes of a Popular State ; ( viz. ) to send him on Embās●ages , and forram● Negotiations , or employ him in some office that hath great charges and litle honour , &c. keywords: bee; doe; end; good; government; great; hee; himselfe; kingdome; people; power; prince; publique; sort; state; viz; wealth cache: A57525.xml plain text: A57525.txt item: #20 of 25 id: A57532 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ... date: 1657 words: 62366 flesch: 67 summary: To which end , the F●●●●ful served in some Common-wealths . 7. To take heed that the State , as it is setled and maintained , be not over-strict , nor exceed in his kind ; ( viz. ) That a Kingdom be not too Monarchicall , nor a P●●ul● State too P●●u●ar : keywords: care; cause; chief; couns; death; doth; duke; end; england; france; god; good; government; great; hath; honour; house; iust; king; kingdom; law; life; like; lord; lordship; love; majestie; majesty; man; means; men; money; parliament; people; place; power; present; prince; publick; raleigh; reason; respect; rest; saith; second; seemeth; self; set; sir; sort; state; subjects; thee; things; thou; thy; time; viz; wealth; wife; wit; world; year; ● ● cache: A57532.xml plain text: A57532.txt item: #21 of 25 id: A57589 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Sir Walter Raleigh's Sceptick, or speculations and Observations of the magnificency and opulency of cities, his Seat of government, and letters to the Kings Majestie, and others of qualitie : also, his demeanor before his execution. date: 1651 words: 15094 flesch: 62 summary: Since experience sheweth , that if we stop , or half stop our Ears , the sound cometh not to us in the same manner and degree , that it doth if our ears be open ? The like may be thought of Smelling , for man himself abounding with Fleagm , is otherwise affected in smelling , than he is , if the parts about the head be full of bloud ; and many things afford a delightfull smell to some living creatures , which smel to other living creatures seemeth not to be so . Oyl to man is profitable ; but it killeth Bees and Wasps . keywords: captain; citie; creatures; god; good; hath; honour; king; letter; life; majestie; man; men; people; raleigh; reason; seemeth; self; ship; sir; things; time; walter cache: A57589.xml plain text: A57589.txt item: #22 of 25 id: A57590 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: The secrets of government and misteries of state plainly laid open, in all the several forms of government in the Christian world / published by John Milton, Esq. date: 1697 words: 39985 flesch: 59 summary: Thirdly , The Stature of a Soldier ought to be observed : Marius liked best the longest Bodies ; Pyrrhus preferred large and well proportioned Men ; but Vegetius in his Choice , rather esteems Strength than Stature : 〈◊〉 est fortes milites esse quam grandes . Veget. Yet Punishment , Imposition and Censure are in all States necessary , although they shew and seem terrible , and consequently breed a certain Desperation in Subjects , unless they be discreetly and modesty used ; for extream and frequent Punishments taste of Cruelty ; great and many Imposts favor of Covetousness ; Censure of Manners when it exceedeth the quality of Offences , doth seem Rigour in these matters ; therefore it behoveth the Prince to be moderate and 〈◊〉 chiefly in Capital Punishment , which must be confined within the Bounds of Justice : Sit apud 〈◊〉 parsimonia etiam viliffimi sanguinis . keywords: actions; arms; authority; cause; chap; command; council; country; course; doth; end; enemy; est; evil; example; experience; fear; force; fortune; general; good; government; hate; hath; having; hold; king; laws; love; magistrates; man; means; men; nature; necessity; occasion; offend; peace; people; persons; power; prince; private; publick; quality; reason; respect; rome; soldiers; state; subjects; tac; things; time; use; vertue; victory; war; wisdom cache: A57590.xml plain text: A57590.txt item: #23 of 25 id: A57605 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Select observations of the incomparable Sir Walter Raleigh relating to trade, commerce, and coin, as it was presented to King James : wherein is proved that our money, our sea and land commodities serve to enrich and strengthen other countries against our own ... date: 1696 words: 12719 flesch: 48 summary: To which Privileges , they add sinallness of Custom , and liberty of Trade , which maketh them flourish and their Country so plentiful of all kind of Coin and Commodities , where little or nothing groweth , and their Merchants so flourish , that when a loss cometh they scarce feel it . The Haunce Towns have advantage of us , as Holland , and other States have , and in most things imitate them , which makes them exceeding Rich and Plentiful of all kind of Commodities and Coin , and so strong in Shipping and Mariners , that some of their Towns have near one Thousand Sail of Ships . keywords: coin; commodities; countries; hath; home; kingdom; land; majesties; majesty; merchants; nation; people; ships; time; trade; value cache: A57605.xml plain text: A57605.txt item: #24 of 25 id: A57617 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: To day a man, to morrow none: or, Sir VValter Ravvleighs farewell to his lady, the night before hee was beheaded; together vvith his advice concerning her, and her sonne. date: 1644 words: 1510 flesch: 78 summary: I cannot write much : God knoweth how hardly I stole this time when all were asleep , and it is now time to separate my thoughts from the world . And seeing it is not the will of God that ever I shall see you any more in this life , beare my destruction gently , and with a heart like your selfe . keywords: god; sir; text; walter cache: A57617.xml plain text: A57617.txt item: #25 of 25 id: A70942 author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. title: Excellent observations and notes, concerning the Royall Navy and sea-service by Sir Walter Rawleigh ... date: 1650 words: 6429 flesch: 64 summary: ships are imployed in service , it were very convenient that such Gentlemen as are his Majesties owne sworne servnats , should be preferred to the charge of his Majesties Ships , Choice being made of men of valour , and Capacitie ; rather then to imploy other mens men , And that other of his Majesties servants should be dispersed privately in those services to gaine experience , and to make themselves able to take charge . The high charging of ships is it that brings them all ill qualities , makes them extreame Leeward makes them sinck deep into the water , makes them labour and makes them overset . keywords: majesties; majesties ships; men; navy; officers; sea; service; shipping; ships; text; water cache: A70942.xml plain text: A70942.txt