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The passage from Horace probably would bring a similar passage to the minds of most educated people of that era: Psalm 145:2, “…Nolite confidere in principibus…” In the King James version, “Put not thy faith in princes.”
Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Pap�, et potentibus ac omnibus Christianorum populis Occidentis: quod nulla ratione faciendum est: tum, propter nimiam seruitutem et intolerabilem, qu� est hactenus inaudita, quam vidimus oculis nostris, in quam redigunt omnes gentes sibi subiectas: tum propterea quod nulla in eis est fides: nec potest aliqua gens confidere in verbis eorum: quia quicquid promittunt non obseruant, quando vident sibi tempora fauere: et subdoli sunt in omnibus factis et promissis eorum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Jugurthae venit; dein ab illo cuncta edoctus, properato itinere post diem octavum redit ad Bocchum et ei denuntiat, 'Jugurtham cupere omnia, quae imperarentur, facere, sed Mario parum confidere; saepe antea cum imperatoribus Romanis pacem conventam [628] frustra fuisse.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Deum, et rursus concipere magnam fidem, et confidere propter
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I assure you I had said _Requiesce anima mea_; but I now am otherwise put to my psalter; _Nolite confidere_.
Bacon John Morley 1852
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"Trust not in princes nor their children," said Lord Strafford, after the Psalmist [_Nolite confidere principibus et filiis eorum, quia non est sales in illis, _ Ps. cxlvi.], when, in the seventeenth century, he found that Charles I. was abandoning him to the English Parliament and the executioner.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830
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Neque Hasdrubal alium quemquam praeficere malle, ubi quid fortiter ac strenuè agendum esset, neque milites alio duce plus confidere aut audere.
The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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: Noli huic tranquillitati confidere: momento mare evertitur: eodem die ubi luserunt navigia sorbentur.
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632
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Non hsc tibi litora fuafit Delius, aut Cretae juflit confidere, Apollo.
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796
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Pauca tibi e multis, qup tutior hofpita luAres. £quora, et Aufonio poffis confidere portu,
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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