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A42930	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	Synēgoros thalassios, A vievv of the admiral jurisdiction wherein the most material points concerning that jurisdiction are fairly and submissively discussed : as also divers of the laws, customes, rights, and priviledges of the high admiralty of England by ancient records, and other arguments of law asserted : whereunto is added by way of appendix an extract of the ancient laws of Oleron / by John Godolphin ...	1661.0		.xml	application/xml	66915	3239	70	Reader , it seems something difficult to determine whether the Sophistication of Truths , or the Fucus of Errors hath of late years been the more Epidemical cheat in Print , it being sufficiently notorious how that adulterous generation went a whoring after the Press , and what a noisome spawn of illegitimate Brats were then generated of the froth of the brain , not less numerous then spurious , that neither their male-content Parents , nor Religion , Law , Reason , nor Charity are able to maintain . He that writes Politicks without prefixing his Principles , comes short of his Duty ; But he that writes Law without quoting his Authority , presumes beyond his Line ; he that blushes to be ingenious , is ashamed of his own modesty ; Plato borrowed many things from Pythagoras ; Aristotle from Plato , and Theophrastus from Aristotle ; This Treatise hath borrowed nothing but what it intends to pay , here 's the acknowledgement of the debt , full satisfaction with interest may be expected elsewhere , sufficient Caution being given in the subsequent Elenchus of the Creditours .	cache/A42930.xml	txt/A42930.txt
