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          id: A43491
      author: Heydon, John, b. 1629.
       title: Advice to a daughter in opposition to the Advice to a sonne, or, Directions for your better conduct through the various and most important encounters of this life ... / by Eugenius Theodidactus.
        date: 1658
       words: 35029
      flesch: 64
     summary: I appeal to the faculties of any free Judge , whether this be not a fruitless question ; for it is a small thing to give any man the hearing of his discourse , and not a penny Matter whether it signifie any thing or not ; first , you make him your friend , and if you but a little instruct him with mild and kind language , it is commendable both with God and Man : And be not proud and scorneful ( oh man ) one God made all flesh . Such as are betrayed by their easie nature , &c. I answer ; Hear this emblem , of an Age , taking of signes by experience , mistakes , that wherein men do ordinarily think , and believe the difference stands between man and man in wisdom , by which he and all others commonly understand a mans whole ability , surety-ship , trusting or power cognitive ; but this is an errour : for the signes are but conjectural ; and according as they have often or seldom failed , so their assurance is more or less , but never full and evident ; for though a man have alwayes seen the day and night to follow one another hitherto , yet can he not thence conclude they shal do so , or that they have done so eternally .
    keywords: advice; answer; beauty; body; books; conscience; daughter; doth; end; experience; friend; god; good; hath; honour; life; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; people; power; prince; reason; religion; self; set; soul; things; think; time; tongue; truth; use; virtue; way; wife; women; words; world; worth
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: A44583
      author: Coventry, William, Sir, 1628?-1686.
       title: Advice to a daughter as to religion, husband, house, family and children, behaviour and conversation, friendship, censure, vanity and affectation, pride, diversions : to which is added The character of a trimmer, as to the laws and government, Protestant religion, the papists, forreign affairs / by the late noble M. of H..
        date: 1699
       words: 41485
      flesch: 41
     summary: Very great Beauty may perhaps so dazle for a time , that Men may not so clearly see the Deformity of these Affectations ; But when the Brightness goeth off , and that the Lover's Eyes are by that means set at liberty , to see things as they are , he will naturally return to his Senses and recover the Mistake into which the Lady 's good Looks had at first engaged him . Lycurgus might have sav'd himself the trouble of making laws , if either he had been Immortal , or that he could have secur'd to Posterity , a succeeding Race of Princes like himself ; his own Example was a better Law , than he could with all his skill tell how to make ; such a Prince is a Living Law , that dictates to his subjects , whose thoughts in that case never rise above their Obedience , the Confidence they have in the vertue and Knowledge of the master , preventing the Scruples and Apprehensions to which Men are naturally inclin'd , in relation to those that govern them ; such a Magistrate is the Life and Soul of Justice , whereas the Law is but a Body and a dead one too , without his influence to give it warmth and vigour , and by the irresistible Power of his vertue , he do's so reconcile Dominion and Allegiance , that all disputes between them are silenced and subdued , and indeed no Monarchy can be Perfect and Absolute without exception , but where the Prince is Superior by his Vertue , as well as by his Character and his Power ; so that to screw out Presidents and unlimited Power , is a plain diminution to a Prince that Nature has made Great , and who had better make himself a glorious Example to Posterity , than borrow an Authority from Dark Records , raised out of the Grave , which besides their Non-usage , have always in them matter of Controversie and Debate , and it may be affirmed , that the instances are very rare of Princes having the worst in the dispute with their People , if they were Eminent for Justice in time of Peace , or Conduct in time of War , such advantage the Crown giveth to those who adorn it by their own Personal vertues .
    keywords: authority; case; france; god; good; government; hath; husband; ill; kind; king; laws; liberty; look; man; means; men; nature; people; power; prince; reason; religion; right; self; thing; tho; thought; time; trimmer; vertue; woman; world
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: A44704
      author: Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.
       title: The lady's new-years gift, or, Advice to a daughter
        date: 1688
       words: 19248
      flesch: 45
     summary: And though this cannot so alter the Nature of things , as to make that Criminal , which in it self is Indifferent ; yet if it maketh it dangerous , that alone is insufficient to justifie the Restraint . No other thing is the better for being Sowre ; and it would be hard that Religion should be so , which is the best of things .
    keywords: care; family; good; hath; husband; ill; kind; lady; mind; nature; reason; self; sex; thing; time; vertue; wife; woman; world
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: A96183
      author: Wells, Mary, fl. 1684.
       title: A divine poem written by Mary Wells, who recommends it as a fit token for all young men and maids, instead of profane songs and ballads
        date: 1684
       words: 1472
      flesch: 73
     summary: BOw down thine ear unto me , Lord , Have mercy on my soul , Subdue my Spiritual Enemies , And all my lusts controul . LIft up my heart unto thee , Lord , Unto a thankful frame ; And let me ever honour thee , And praise thee for the same .
    keywords: lord; tcp; text; thee
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