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In the fifte place vse a comparison, comparyng the per - sone with other, whiche are more inferiour.
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In the fifte place vse a comparison, wherein that whiche you praise, maie be aduaunced to the vttermoste.
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This parte of _Rhetorike_ called praise, is either a particu - ler praise of one, as of kyng Henry the fifte, Plato, Tullie,
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The fifte Petition is to beseeche the Treasurer, Counsell & Company that, towards the erecting of the University and Colledge, they will sende, when they shall thinke [110] it most convenient, workmen of all sortes, fitt for that purpose.
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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Such one vile _Enuie_ was, that +fifte+ in row did sitt.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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In the fifte place, sette forthe the thynges, reasonyng one with an other, as the Ant with the Greshopper, or the Cocke with the precious stone.
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It was further agreed that these 8. comissioners shall meete once every year, besids extraordinarie meetings, (according to the fifte article,) to consider, treate, & conclude of all affaires belonging to this confederation, which meeting shall ever be the first Thursday in
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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In this fifte Æglogue, vnder the persons of two shepheards Piers & Palinodie, be represented two formes of pastoures or Ministers, or the protestant and the Catholique: whose chiefe talke standeth in reasoning, whether the life of the one must be like the other. with whom hauing shewed, that it is daungerous to mainteine any felowship, or giue too much credit to their co
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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And by that name (as I remember) he is called of Eusebius in his fifte booke de Preparat.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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In the fifte figure, is shewed the forme of a fower square armie: as in the booke is discribed.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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