item: #1 of 35
          id: A01075
      author: Forset, Edward, 1553?-1630.
       title: A comparatiue discourse of the bodies natural and politique VVherein out of the principles of nature, is set forth the true forme of a commonweale, with the dutie of subiects, and right of soueraigne: together with many good points of politicall learning, mentioned in a briefe after the preface. By Edvvard Forset.
        date: 1606.0
       words: 34532
      flesch: 52
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    keywords: bee; best; bodie; body; commonweale; diseases; doe; doth; euen; euery; euill; force; god; good; gouernment; hath; haue; head; health; heart; himselfe; ibid; lesse; life; loue; magistrats; man; naturall; nature; neuer; owne; parts; people; politicall; politique; power; reason; right; selfe; soueraigne; soule; state; strength; subiects; themselues; thereof; things; verie; vnto; vpon; vse; wee; worke; yea
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        item: #2 of 35
          id: A06425
      author: Finet, John, Sir, 1571-1641.
       title: The beginning, continuance, and decay of estates vvherein are handled many notable questions concerning the establishment of empires and monarchies. Written in French by R. de Lusing, L. of Alymes: and translated into English by I.F.
        date: 1606.0
       words: 57656
      flesch: 58
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    keywords: affaires; alwaies; armes; armie; army; causes; chap; christians; country; courage; doe; empire; end; enterprise; estate; forces; generall; god; good; greatnesse; hath; haue; hauing; himselfe; horse; king; league; lesse; man; manner; matter; meanes; men; neuer; obedience; occasion; opinion; ought; owne; people; power; princes; purpose; ruine; sea; second; set; souldiours; strength; subiects; themselues; time; turke; valour; vnder; vpon; wars; way
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        item: #3 of 35
          id: A16264
      author: Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.
       title: The new-found politicke Disclosing the secret natures and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of statesmen and courtiers; wherein the gouernments, greatnesse, and power of the most notable kingdomes and common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured. Together with many excellent caueats and rules fit to be obserued by those princes and states of Christendome, both Protestants and papists, which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine, as by the speech of the Duke of Hernia, vttered in the counsell of Spaine, and hereto annexed, may appeare. Written in Italian by Traiano Boccalini ... And now translated into English for the benefit of this kingdome.
        date: 1626.0
       words: 80663
      flesch: 41
     summary: For the safety of a State , and the vniuersall peace of the people , depending onely on the fidelity of the ministers of Princes and Republiks , and on the well-meaning plainnesse and sincerity of euery mans mind : what other more precious iewell could bee desired in the world , then continually to see in Germany by vertue of excessiue quaffing of Wine , to vomit forth the inwardest secrets and most hidden cogitations of the minds of men . As soone as these learned and wise Lords were reunited to declare their remedies , the fame is , that Thales the Milesian , the first of the seuen Sages , began in this manner : Most prudent Philosophers ; The businesse for which we are now here assembled together , is the greatest , which the wit of man can treat of ; and although no other enterprise may be found so hard , as to heale an inueterate Neapolitane bone-ache , an infistulated Gangrene , an incurable Canker , yet notwithstanding , the insuperable difficulties , which weare out other mens braines , ought to animate men of our ranke to ouercome them , seeing that the supposed impossibilitie of the Cure will augment our glory , and will maintaine vs still in that sublime and high degree of reputation , wherein we are eleuated ; and now I firmly assure my selfe , that I haue found out the true Antidote for the easie expulse of these venemous and banefull corruptions .
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        item: #4 of 35
          id: A30645
      author: Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.
       title: The Roman the conversation of the Romans and Mæcenas, in three excellent discourses / written in French by Monsieur de Balsac ; translated into English.
        date: 1652.0
       words: 17916
      flesch: 64
     summary: He concluded , Madam , that it was not just to accuse the purity of things for the intemperance of men , and that it is not credible that the goods of this life should have been made only for the wicked . Discourse I. WHAT hath been told you Madam is most true , and if you desire an illustrious witness , I will confirm it , Caesar shall assure you in two or three places of his commentaries .
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        item: #5 of 35
          id: A34820
      author: Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
       title: The learned and loyal Abraham Cowley's definition of a tyrant (published by the present Lord Bishop of Rochester) in his discourse concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell.
        date: 1688.0
       words: 1283
      flesch: 63
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    keywords: eebo; parliament; tcp; text
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        item: #6 of 35
          id: A37231
      author: Davies, John, 1625-1693.
       title: Political and military observations a new collection / by J.D. of Kidwelly.
        date: 1679.0
       words: 20161
      flesch: 57
     summary: ALL the assurances that can be had of an Enemy whether by oath , parole , engagement to friends , promises , or whatever other way can be imagin'd , are good ; but by reason of the corruption of persons , the depravation of Morality , and the vicissitude of times and accidents , the best expedient is for a man to take such order in his affairs , as that the Enemy may not be in a capacity to annoy him . THat Prince does well who makes it his business to be well supply'd with prudent Commanders and persons eminent for their valour for the management of War :
    keywords: affairs; contrary; danger; enemy; fear; good; government; honour; man; men; necessity; occasion; person; prince; prudence; publick; reason; regard; state; things; time; vertue; war
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        item: #7 of 35
          id: A41308
      author: Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.
       title: Patriarcha, or, The natural power of Kings by the learned Sir Robert Filmer.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 27678
      flesch: 59
     summary: And therefore at the beginning , Cities were under the Government of Kings , for the eldest in every house is King : Next , the Governours that are sent by him ; that is by the King , not by God , as some corruptly would wrest the Text , to justifie Popular Governours as authorized by God , whereas in Gramatical Construction [ Him ] the Relative must be referred to the next Antecedent , which is King ; Besides , the Antithesis between Supreme and Sent , proves plainly that the Governours were sent by Kings ; for if the Governours were sent by God , and the King be an Humane Ordinance , then it follows , that the Governours were Supreme , and not the King ; Or if it be said , that both King and Governours are sent by God , then they are both equal , and so neither of them Supreme .
    keywords: aristotle; authority; children; commons; council; doth; families; father; general; god; government; hath; king; kingdom; laws; liberty; man; monarchy; multitude; nature; parliament; people; power; right; saith; statute; subjects; time; world
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        item: #8 of 35
          id: A41310
      author: Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.
       title: Political discourses of Sir Robert Filmer, Baronet, viz. Patriarcha, or the natural power of Kings. The free-holders Grand-inquest. Observations upon Aristotles politicks. Directions for obedience to government. Also observations upon Mr. Hobbs's Leviathan. Mr. Milton against Salmatius. Hugo Grotius de Jure Belli & Pacis. Mr. Hunton's treatise on Monarchy. With an advertisement to the Jurymen of England touching witches
        date: 1680.0
       words: 28661
      flesch: 60
     summary: They did not ask a Tyrant , and to give them a Tyrant , when they asked a King , had not been to hear their Voice in all things but rather when they asked an Egge , to have given them a Scorpion : Unless we will say , that all Nations had Tyrant● Besides , we do not find in all Scripture that Saul was Punished , or so much a● Blamed , for committing any of tho●● Acts which Samuel describes : and if S●muel's drift had been only to terrifie th● People , he would not have forgott● to foretell Saul's bloody Cruelty , ●● Murthering 85 innocent Priests , a● smiteing with the Edge of the Swo● the City of Nob , both Man , Woman and Child . Henry the Seventh and His Council , in ●●e Star-Chamber , decreed , That Margery ●nd Florence Becket should Sue no further in their Cause against Alice Radley , ●idow , for Lands in Wolwich and Plum●ad in Kent ; for as much as the Matter ●d been heardfirst before the Council of ●ng Ed. 4. after that before the Presi●●nt of the Requests of that King , Hen. and then lastly , before the Council of said King.
    keywords: adam; aristotle; authority; children; commons; council; doth; families; father; form; free; general; god; government; hath; judges; judgment; king; kingdom; laws; liberty; man; monarchy; multitude; nature; parliament; people; power; princes; right; saith; subjects; time; world; ● e; ● ●
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        item: #9 of 35
          id: A41311
      author: Filmer, Robert, Sir, d. 1653.
       title: The power of kings, and in particular of the King of England learnedly asserted by Sir Robert Filmer, Kt. ; with a preface of a friend, giving an account of the author and his works.
        date: 1680.0
       words: 6049
      flesch: 59
     summary: If the King should be Subject unto the Assemblies and Decrees of the People , he should neither be King nor Soveraign , and the Commonwealth neither Realm nor Monarchy ; but a meer Aristocracy of many Lords in Power equal , where the Greater part commandeth the less ; and whereon the Laws are not to be published in the Name of him that Ruleth , but in the Name and Authority of the Estates ; as in an Aristocratical Seignory , where he that is Chief hath no Power , but oweth Obeisance to the Seignory ; unto whom yet they every one of them feign themselves to owe their Faith and Obedience : which are all things so absurd , as hard it is to see which is furthest from Reason . It behoveth him that is a Soveraign , not to be in any sort Subject to the Command of Another ; whose Office is to give Laws unto his Subjects , to Abrogate Laws unprofitable , and in their stead to Establish other ; which he cannot do , that is himself Subject to Laws , or to Others which have Command over him : And this is that which the Law saith , that The Prince is acquitted from the Power of the Laws .
    keywords: god; hath; king; laws; people; power; prince; soveraign; subjects
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        item: #10 of 35
          id: A43118
      author: Du Chastelet, Paul Hay, marquis, b. ca. 1630.
       title: The politicks of France by Monsieur P.H. ... ; with Reflections on the 4th and 5th chapters, wherein he censures the Roman clergy and the Hugonots, by the Sr. l'Ormegreny.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 68381
      flesch: 63
     summary: eng Louis -- XIV, -- King of France, 1638-1715. For though it were so , yet should not the thing be stuck at ; the Reformation of a State being concern'd : nor is the ill of particular persons to be put to accompt , when the Weal of the Publick is in question , GOD Himself , who is King of Kings , and Eternally Just , how many men did He destroy by that universal deluge for the Reformation of the Universe ? How many Isralites did He cut off in the Wilderness , to save the gross of the People ?
    keywords: affairs; arms; authority; bishops; cause; church; clergy; contrary; country; court; end; enemies; france; french; general; god; good; hath; having; huguenots; justice; kind; king; kingdom; know; law; laws; majesty; manner; matter; means; men; money; need; number; officers; order; pay; people; persons; places; pope; power; princes; publick; reason; religion; right; rome; set; state; subjects; things; time; truth; virtue; war; way; years
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        item: #11 of 35
          id: A43978
      author: Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
       title: De corpore politico, or, The elements of law, moral and politick with discourses upon severall heads, as of [brace] the law of nature, oathes and covenants, several kinds of government : with the changes and revolutions of them / by Tho. Hobbs of Malmsbury.
        date: 1652.0
       words: 42999
      flesch: 67
     summary: Why therefore may not men that foresee the Benefit of Concord , continually maintain the same without compulsion , as well as they ? To which I answer , That amongst other living Creatures , there is no Question of Precedence in their owne Species , nor strife about Honour , or acknowledgement of one anothers wisdome , as there is amongst Men , from whence arise Envie and Hatred of one towards another , and from thence Sedition and War . And the difficulty is this ; We have amongst us the Word of God for the Rule of our Actions : Now if wee shall subiect our selves to men also , obliging our selves to do such Actions , as shall be by them commanded , when the Commands of God and Man shall differ , we are to obey God , rather then man ; And consequently , the Covenant of general Obedience to man is unlaw●ull .
    keywords: actions; authority; body; chap; christ; covenant; doth; faith; god; good; government; hath; law; laws; liberty; man; men; nature; necessary; peace; people; power; reason; right; soveraign; subiect; things; time; use; war; wealth
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        item: #12 of 35
          id: A45610
      author: Harrington, James, 1611-1677.
       title: Aphorisms political by James Harrington.
        date: 1659.0
       words: 4659
      flesch: 72
     summary: To hold that the wisdom of man in the Formation of an House , or of Government , may go upon supernatural principles , is inconsistent with a Commonwealth , and as if one should say , God ordained the Temple , therefore it was not built by Masons ; He ordained the Snuffers , therefore they were not made by a Smith . Where the Security is no more then Personal , there may be a good Monarch , but can be no good Commonwealth .
    keywords: army; assembly; commonwealth; government; liberty; people; senate; text
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        item: #13 of 35
          id: A45611
      author: Harrington, James, 1611-1677.
       title: Brief directions shewing how a fit and perfect model of popular government may be made, found, or understood
        date: 1659.0
       words: 7247
      flesch: 61
     summary: That in case the Senate add nine Knights more elected promiscuously , or not promiscuously , out of their own number , unto the Council of War , the said Council of War be understood by such addition , to be Dictator of the Common-Wealth for the term of three Moneths and no longer , except by farther Order of the Senate the said Dictatorian power be prolonged for a like term . 26. That the Signiory have Session and suffrage , with right also joyntly or severally to propose both in the Senate , and in all Senatorian Councils . 27. That each of the three Orders or divisions of Knights , in each Senatorian Council , elect one Provost for the term of one Week , and that any two Provosts of the same Council so elected , may propose unto the same Council for their term and not otherwise . That what shall be Proposed unto the Senate by any one or more of the Signiory , or of the Proposers General ; or what ever was Proposed by any two of the Provosts , or particular Proposers unto their respective Council ; and upon debate at that Council shall come to be Proposed by the same unto the Senate , be necessarily debatable , and debated by the Senate .
    keywords: council; government; law; model; people; senate; term; tribe; wealth
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        item: #14 of 35
          id: A45694
      author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.
       title: Political aphorisms: or, The true maxims of government displayed Wherein is likewise proved, that paternal authority is no absolute authority, and that Adam had no such authority. That there neither is or can be any absolute government de jure, and that all such pretended government is void. That the children of Israel did often resist their evil princes without any appointment or foretelling thereof by God in scripture. That the primitive Christians did often resist their tyrannical emperors, and that Bishop Athanasius did approve of resistance. That the Protestants in all ages did resist their evil and destructive princes. Together with a historical account of the depriving of kings for their evil government, in Israel, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, and in England before and since the conquest.
        date: 1691.0
       words: 13542
      flesch: 56
     summary: Thou shalt in any wise set him King over thee , whom the Lord thy God shall choose : One from among thy Brethren shalt thou set over thee ; thou mayst not set a Stranger over thee . God did not require the Jews to accept of him for King whom he should chuse , but left it to their own free Will , whether they would accept him or no , is plain from the following Examples .
    keywords: authority; christians; david; god; government; hath; israel; king; laws; man; nature; obedience; people; power; princes; right; scripture
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        item: #15 of 35
          id: A50955
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       title: The tenure of kings and magistrates proving that it is lawfull, and hath been held so through all ages, for any who have the power, to call to account a tyrant, or wicked king, and after due conviction, to depose and put the author, J.M.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 13187
      flesch: 45
     summary: And therefore when they desit'd a King , though then under another forme of goverment , and though thir changing displeasd him , yet he that was himself thir King , and rejected by them , would not be a hindrance to what they inended , furder then by perswasion , but that they might doe therein as they saw good , 1 Sam. 8. onely he reserv'd to himself the nomination of who should reigne over them . And to couple reason with example , if the Church in all ages , Primitive , Romish , or Protestant held it ever no less thir duty then the power of thir Keyes , though without express warrant of Scripture , to bring indifferently both King and Peasant under the utmost rigor of thir Canons and Censures Ecclesiastical , eev'n to the smiting him with a final excommunion , if he persist impenitent , what hinders but that the temporal Law both may and ought , though without a special Text or president , extend with like indifference the civil Sword , to the cutting off without exemption him that capitally offends .
    keywords: bee; bin; church; don; god; good; hath; hee; justice; king; law; man; men; owne; people; power; reason; right; subject; text; thir; time; tyrant
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        item: #16 of 35
          id: A52855
      author: Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.
       title: Plato redivivus, or, A dialogue concerning government wherein, by observations drawn from other kingdoms and states both ancient and modern, an endeavour is used to discover the present politick distemper of our own, with the causes and remedies ...
        date: 1681.0
       words: 58679
      flesch: 41
     summary: I cannot resolve you that , but this is certain , they have never endeavoured a Cure , though possibly they might know the Disease , as fearing that though the Effects of a Remedy would be , as was said , very advantagious both to King and People , and to themselves ; yet possibly , such a Reformation might not consist with the Merchandize they make of the Princes Favour , nor with such Bribes , Gratuities and Fees as they usually take for the dispatch of all Matters before them . This Gracious Offer had the fatality to disguist one of the best Parliaments that ever Sate , and the most Loyal ; so that laying it aside , they fell upon the Succession , the only thing they had then left , and were soon after Dissolved , leaving the Kingdom in a more distracted Condition than they found it ; and this can no way be composed , but by mending the Polity , so that whoever is King cannot ( be he never so inclined to it ) introduce Popery , or destroy whatever Religion shall be established : as you see in the Example of the Dutchy of Hanover , whose Prince some fourteen Years since , was perverted to the Roman Church , went to Rome to abjure Heresie ( as they call the truth ) return'd home , where he lived and Governed as he did before , without the least Animosity of his Subjects for his Change , or any endeavour of his to Introduce any in his Government or People , and dying this last Spring , left the Peaceable and undisturbed Rule of his Subjects to the next Successor , his Brother the Bishop of Osnaburg , who is a Protestant , and this because the Polity of that Dukedom has been conserved entire for many years , and is upon a right Basis : and if our Case were so , we should not onely be out of danger to have our Religion altered ( as I said before ) whoever is King , but should in other things be in a happy and flourishing condition .
    keywords: case; commons; country; discourse; doct; eng; england; france; gent; gentleman; god; good; government; hath; house; interest; king; kingdom; lands; laws; majesty; man; matters; new; parliament; people; persons; power; pray; present; prince; property; reason; religion; right; sir; state; thing; time; ven; war; way; world
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        item: #17 of 35
          id: A55808
      author: H. P.
       title: A satyr against common-wealths
        date: 1684.0
       words: 4752
      flesch: 64
     summary: Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 97289) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; conscience; eebo; english; government; heaven; man; men; power; satyr; tcp; text; wealths
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        item: #18 of 35
          id: A57355
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       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: 1692.0
       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
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        item: #19 of 35
          id: A57360
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       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: 1658.0
       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; ● ●
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        item: #20 of 35
          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: 1650.0
       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; ● ●
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        item: #21 of 35
          id: A57525
      author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
       title: The prince, or, Maxims of state written by Sir Walter Ravvley ...
        date: 1642.0
       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
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        item: #22 of 35
          id: A57532
      author: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
       title: Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ...
        date: 1657.0
       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; ● ●
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        item: #23 of 35
          id: A57590
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       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: 1697.0
       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
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        item: #24 of 35
          id: A57691
      author: Rous, Francis, 1579-1659.
       title: The bounds & bonds of publique obedience, or, A vindication of our lawfull submission to the present government, or to a government supposed unlawfull, but commanding lawfull things likewise how such an obedience is consistent with our Solemne League and Covenant : in all which a reply is made to the three answers of the two demurrers, and to the author of The grand case of conscience, who professe themselves impassionate Presbyterians.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 25348
      flesch: 57
     summary: If he hath a quarrell to us for our peaceablenesse , yet why should he quarrell with St. Paul ? He bad the Romans submit in the same kinde ; and unlesse we had Prophets on purpose to tell Governours , as well as us of the People , who must alwaies succeed according to the minde of God , then the state of the world , the nature of politick justic● of society and Religion is such that we may & ought to submit in obedience to those who plenarily possesse , protect and command us lawfull things . Surely our unhappinesse in the E●adication of civill errours is , that we speake more to the affections then to the Iudgement , and therefore offer passion in stead of reason , or make one but the counterfeit of the other , or else not affecting one anothers persons , we fling headily into opposite paths or principles , in which not treading together at first , we cannot possibly meet together at last , and in this aberration we loose both truth and our selves .
    keywords: betwixt; case; change; covenant; end; god; government; hath; house; king; lawfull; magistrate; man; oath; obedience; parliament; people; power; present; publique; right; state; supreame; things; warre; world; ● ●
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        item: #25 of 35
          id: A57692
      author: One that professeth himself a friend to presbytery, a lover and embracer of truth wheresoever he find's [sic] it.
       title: The grand case of conscience stated, about submission to the new and present power, or, An impassionate answer to a modest book concerning the lawfullness of submitting to the present government by one that professeth himself a friend to presbytery, a lover and embracer of truth wheresoever he find's it.
        date: 1649.0
       words: 10122
      flesch: 55
     summary: ALthough I love not contention , yet I desire satisfaction : that whilst ●… live a midst a tumultuous generation , and unquiet times , I may be delivered from a troubled spirit and discalm'd minde ; A wounded spirit who can bear ? I was willing to have sate down in silence , res●…lving to hav●… kept my conscience , as void of offence to others , so ●…ree from disturbance in it self , ch●…sing rather quietly to suffer for not doing what was commanded , than knowingly to act what is ( at least to me ) ●…lawfull : such a Liberty of Conscience I conceive none will deny me .
    keywords: authority; authour; conscience; covenant; government; lawfull; obedience; pag; people; power; present; submission; title
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        item: #26 of 35
          id: A58019
      author: Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.
       title: A general draught and prospect of government in Europe, and civil policy Shewing the antiquity, power, decay, of Parliaments. With other historical and political observations relating thereunto. In a letter.
        date: 1681.0
       words: 16094
      flesch: 67
     summary: Nor is it material that the ordinary stile and form of words seem to imply the contrary : for if the saying , Emperor and the States , argues the Emperor himself to be none of the States , by the same reason the form so frequent in their Recesses or publick Ordinances , chur fursten , fursten , und Standen , that is , Elector-Princes , Princes , and States , will exclude the Electors , and the other Princes also , from being either of them States . In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.
    keywords: assembly; caesar; charles; court; effect; electors; emperor; empire; english; france; french; general; germany; government; king; laws; lewis; new; parliament; people; policy; power; princes; publick; reason; right; roman; states; tcp; text; time; way
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        item: #27 of 35
          id: A61533
      author: Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.
       title: Modern policies taken from Machiavel, Borgia, and other choice authors by an eye-witnesse.
        date: 1653.0
       words: 13503
      flesch: 53
     summary: Athon●●s tells a pretty story , of one Atheni●● born obscurely , who 〈◊〉 long as hee was priva●● and poor , excelled in 〈◊〉 soft and tractable disposition , but when by jug●ling he had obtained th●Athenian Governmen● there was none more ●dious for a cruel , cove●ous , & barbarick tyra●ny : as it is reported 〈◊〉 Caligula , there was nev●● a better Servant , and a worse Master . It is not the least of our misfortunes , that sins and vices are cost times endear'd to us by false Titles and Complements : being couzened with a specious name , though much incoherent to the thing we ascribe it : or el●e , omi●●ing the vice which is the maine , it intimates onely the ●e●i●e which is the By ● As for example , we call an ambitious man {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , a person of notable aime and high enterprize whereas in truth , signifies , an indirect affectour of Grandeur : And I finde that by incautelous intertainment of these Phrases , our judgments are often brib'd to misapprehensions , & we seduced to bad actions .
    keywords: actions; advantage; bee; colasterion; div; english; est; eye; god; gods; good; government; hath; heaven; hee; liberty; men; necessity; non; notes; owne; people; person; polititian; prince; principle; religion; roman; sword; text; thing; use; wee; world; ● ●
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        item: #28 of 35
          id: A65787
      author: White, Thomas, 1593-1676.
       title: The grounds of obedience and government by Thomas White ...
        date: 1655.0
       words: 26946
      flesch: 56
     summary: For , we need not looke into Philosophy , nor study learned Bookes , to know that the nature of Man is inclin'd to have its owne will , and casteth all things which are under his consideration to compasse and effect it : as also , that every ordinary mans knowledge and consideration is farre beyond any we find in other living Creatures ; and , by consequence , is farre lesse easily masterable then any of them . Man therefore being by his nature and definition a reasonable , that is , an understanding Creature , or one whose primary and principall inclination is to truth or true knowledge ; and the outward carriage and action of man being naturally proportionable to his inward substance ; it is cleere his chief property , by which he behaves himself outwardly like a man , is to speak truth , and to doe as hee sayeth , when his words have action following them .
    keywords: action; bee; doe; god; good; governement; governour; ground; hath; hee; himselfe; law; lawes; magistrate; man; master; nature; obedience; owne; people; power; promise; reason; subject; wealth; wee
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        item: #29 of 35
          id: A66762
      author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
       title: The modern states-man. By G.W. Esq
        date: 1653.0
       words: 31074
      flesch: 48
     summary: The actings of Providence are so fairly printed , and the letters of it so visible , and capital , that we may read them , though some perverse beings , unworthy the name of men , slight all its workings , upon this account , that they are rolling , and fluctuating ; who with the old Scepticks by a kind of strange hypocrisie , and in an unusual way of affectation , pretend to more ignorance than they have , nay than they are capable of , or with Socrates cry , Hoc tantum scire , se nihil scire ; He only knows this , that he knoweth nothing ; and with the Academicks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . VVE hear the Philosopher thus reasoning , Do not the imperfect serve the more perfect , as the Elements mixt bodies , mixt bodies plants , plants living creatures , living creatures and all the rest man , nay hath not the soul a master like rule over the body , and the understanding an empire over the appetite , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , and now when by nature it is thought convenient for the inferiour to serve the superiour , ought not man to judge it best for him to serve the most wise and good God ?
    keywords: actions; body; cause; chap; cicero; doth; enemies; enemy; est; examples; god; gods; good; habit; hand; hath; heaven; help; honour; justice; knowledge; law; learning; life; means; men; mind; nation; nature; non; peace; people; power; prudence; publick; reason; religion; right; roman; rome; self; set; state; text; things; thy; time; use; vertue; war; way; wealth; yea
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        item: #30 of 35
          id: A69585
      author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
       title: An essay of a king with an explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the kings prerogative / written by the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban.
        date: 1642.0
       words: 2460
      flesch: 64
     summary: Kings and rulers -- Duties. 2007-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-03 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion AN ESSAY OF A KING , WITH An explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the KINGS Prerogative .
    keywords: king; law; people; power; prerogative; text
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        item: #31 of 35
          id: A70276
      author: Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
       title: Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 74929
      flesch: 29
     summary: And what Forren Nation will do either of these to the King of England if he be Armless , and without a Sword ? who will give any respect o●… precedence to his Ambassadors , and Ministers of State ? The Sword also is the prime Instrument of publick protection , therefore that King who hath not the power of the Sword , must have another Title given Him , the Protector of his peeple . This kept a foul noise beyond Sea I re●…ember , so that upon the Rialto in Venice , ●…t was sung up and down , that a Midsummer Moon ( though it was then midst of Winter ) did raign amongst the English , and you must ●…hink that it hath made the Venetian to ●…hrink in his shoulders , and to look but ill-favouredly upon us , since wee 'l have none of his currans .
    keywords: act; acts; advantage; army; bin; birds; bloud; body; cast; cause; chiefest; church; city; country; court; crown; day; discourse; divers; earth; england; english; fear; france; french; god; good; government; great; hand; hath; head; heaven; holy; honour; house; ill; ireland; irish; island; kind; king; kingdom; late; law; laws; life; london; long; lord; lordship; majesties; majesty; man; members; money; nation; nature; nay; new; oaths; parliament; patricius; peace; people; peregrin; person; places; point; poor; power; present; prince; publick; reason; religion; right; royall; scot; second; self; shold; sir; som; spirit; state; subject; sword; ther; thing; thought; time; tru; war; way; work; world
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        item: #32 of 35
          id: A78780
      author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
       title: Effata regalia. Aphorismes [brace] divine, moral, politick. Scattered in the books, speeches, letters, &c. of Charles the First, King of Great Brittain, &c. / Now faithfully collected and published by Richard Watson, fellow of Gonvile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge.
        date: 1661.0
       words: 63081
      flesch: 71
     summary: A King hath no judge but God above him . Ambiguous , dangerous and authorized novelties , are not to be preferred before known and sworn duties , which are dispensable , both to God and King. 31.
    keywords: bloud; cause; christian; church; conscience; consent; death; desire; enemies; glory; god; gods; good; government; hath; honour; injur'd king; justice; king; kingdom; lawes; liberty; life; like; love; loyalty; man; men; mens; parliament; peace; people; piety; power; publick; reason; rebels; religion; right; safety; sin; soul; state; subjects; things; time; truth; use; war; way
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        item: #33 of 35
          id: A85018
      author: Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
       title: A happy handfull, or Green hopes in the blade; in order to a harvest, of the several shires, humbly petitioning, or heartily declaring for peace.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 23896
      flesch: 49
     summary: 2. That the said Parliament may safely , freely meet at Westminster on the third Monday in January next , to consult of , vote , and settle the Peace , Government of our distracted Churches and Nations , without the interruption , disturbance , force or dissolution of any Commanders , Officers or Souldiers of the Army , or other tumultuous persons whatsoever , under pain of being declared , prosecuted , executed as Traitors and Enemies to the Publique . Oppression , Injustice , and Tyranny reigneth ; division , discord , and distimulation fomented and fostered ; Trade and industry discouraged , our Land rent into Parties and Factions , and the common Band of Unity Cancell'd , our fundamental Laws supplanted , High Courts of Justice introduced , the blood of War sh●d in times of Peace ; Arbitrary and illegal imprisonments , Patents , Monopolies , Excise , and other payments brought upon us , and continued contrary to Magna Charta , and the Petition of Right ; no form or face of Government of English Constitution amongst us ; the Name and Athority of the People in Parliament usurped and abused , and the stamp thereof put upon strange and prodigious Actions , vexing and oppressing the People with dayly Changes and Alterations in government , as the Interest of some few ambitious Grandees alter and change , or get advantages one of another , and all under the Name of a Common-wealth , when as the Nature is not practised or intended at all , it being utterly inconsistent with their very temper and interest ; they are wrapt up and compounded of nothing but guilt-blood , and Tyranny ; and equal and common Justice ( the essence of a Common-wealth ) are utterly repugnant thereto ; and whatsoever they can do must be planted and maintained by Sword and violence against the very Heart and Sence of the Nation ; and they know not where or how to centre an Oligarchy , or something they would have to be Masters of the People , and perpetuate their power and Tyranny , and therefore would amaze and confound us with their New Debares of a Coordinate Power , or Senate for Life , such as our English , Laws and Liberties know not of , and of pernicious consequence to this Nation ; so that from these men that thus handle the Stern at Westminster , there is no expectation of any just settlement of Peace , or Freedom from Oppression ; especially considering the Apostacy , Hypocracy , Deceipt , and perjury of those men , their manifold solemn Engagements , Oaths , Vows , Protestations , Appeals unto Heaven ; Promises , Remonstrances , Declarations , all by them broken again and again , never keeping Faith , Truce , or Oath , being unbounded , unlimited , certain to nothing , not to be held either by the Law of God or Man , of Conscience or Reason ; And from such Persons in Government , Good Lord deliver us , and all the good People of England ; and that all this is true of them , your Consciences ( Noble Citizens , and all other the Free-People of England ) can witness , there is no tongue , no pen is able to vindicate them in this point ; it is known of all , owned by all , and can be denied by none ; how then can any honest or just man shed any blood in their Quarrel , or lend them assistance ? surely that blood will be required at their hands , and we doubt not but you will be carefull what you do . And therefore from those Considerations and just provocations , that we have taken up Arms in pursuance of , and Inquisition after our Government , Laws , and Liberties , that every English-man may be protected and secured in his Religion , Liberty , and Property ; and though it may be suggested , that we intend to introduce Prosecution for Conscience into the Land again , we do hereby ( in the presence of Almighty God ) protest and Declare against all Coercive power in matters of Religion , and that to the utmost of our strength ( through Gods assistance ) we will endeavour , to the hazzard of our Blood and Fortunes , the Freedom and Protection of all vertuous and religious People , by what Name soever differenced from us , equal with our selves : and that no forreign , or other Authority , save only the Civil be exercised in England : That the Practise of the Law be reformed ; all corrupt Statutes repealed ; Annual Elections of all Officers and Magistrates , with the constant Succession of Parliaments restored ; our fundamental Laws cleared and asserted ; and whatever is contrary there to be abolished : That no Trials be admitted in England for Life , Limb , Liberty or Estate , but by the good old way of Juries ; and that they be restored to their original power and purity : That all Extrajudicial and Illegal proceedings by High-Courts of Justice , or otherwise , with all Illegal and Arbitrary Committees , be strictly provided against : that the Excise , and all other Payments and Taxes , ( such as our Ancestors never knew of ) together with all Monopolies and Patents destructive to Trade and the Common good of the Nation be also abolished ; And , that our Parliaments and Magistrates be secured from all Force and Violence ; and utterly cleared from all boundlesse Prerogative , and unlimited Priviledge : That the Right of the Poor in the Commons of England , all Donations for Charitable Uses , and all Lands formerly belonging to the People , be restor'd again : And that Mercy and Justice be truly established amongst us .
    keywords: army; city; common; county; declaration; desire; england; english; esq; excellency; force; general; gentlemen; god; good; government; hath; having; john; laws; liberties; lord; members; nation; parliament; peace; people; persons; present; publick; right; selves; sir; thomas
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        item: #34 of 35
          id: A85713
      author: Goślicki, Wawrzyniec, 1530-1607.
       title: The sage senator delineated: or, A discourse of the qualifications, endowments, parts, external and internal, office, duty and dignity of a perfect politician. With a discourse of kingdoms, republiques, & states-popular. As also, of kings and princes: to which is annexed, the new models of modern policy. / By J.G. Gent.
        date: 1660.0
       words: 43774
      flesch: 51
     summary: But to begin : Man , the perfection of the Creation , was not made a Citizen or Inhabitant of this World only , but Lord Paramount over all Creatures that have a being within the compass of the terrestrial Globe : This authority and dignity was conferred upon him by the supreme Governour of Heaven and earth , who hath descended so far below his sacred Self , as to make him his Co-partner in Government , adorning him with divine understanding ; to the intent , that the Scepter of this terrene Empire may be swayed by his Reason and Counsel . The cause of this co-union of Government between God and Man , proceeds from Reason ; which being perfect , makes Man capable of imitating Almightiness ; so that it appears , there is a kind of near alliance or consanguinity between the Creator and the Creature , who sometimes is made God's Vicegerent upon earth : yet without divine assistance , no reason or counsel can be termed good , or perfect :
    keywords: actions; age; authority; body; chap; citizens; commonwealth; counsel; counsellor; country; dignity; doth; duty; end; fortune; god; good; government; grave; hath; honour; justice; king; kingdom; knowledge; laws; life; man; men; mind; nation; nature; non; number; opinion; people; persons; philosophy; place; plato; publike; reason; self; senate; senator; sorts; state; subjects; things; time; vertue; war; wisdom; world
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        item: #35 of 35
          id: A85748
      author: Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639.
       title: Politick maxims and observations written by the most learned Hugo Grotius translated for the ease and benefit of the English states-men. By H.C. S.T.B.
        date: 1654.0
       words: 16245
      flesch: 72
     summary: 9. A Popular State may miscarry too by some wealthy Citizen : who does favour and foster Poets and Oratours , and Preachers , & Grammarians , and all sorts of men , that have Eloquence or wit , and by his riches , keeps an Academy in his own house : of men that can Blazon , & Trumpet forth his praises and worth to the People &c. Though thy imployments have excel'd thy pen , Shew'd thee much skil'd in Books , but more in men .
    keywords: body; change; dominion; empire; god; good; king; law; lawes; man; men; monarchy; nature; non; observator; people; power; princes; prudence; reason; religion; republique; roman; rule; state; thy
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