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And such women as will vouchsafe to read this little short treatise; may be put in minde of a duty, which all mothers are bound to performe; and I shall be glad if any will consider, and put in practice, that which is both naturall and comfortable.

The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie 1622

But for the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the minde, which is the end of speech, that hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

Defence of Poesie 1992

At length, and yet not with a perfect recalled minde, I beganne to reduce and sommon together, my fearefull and distempered spirites: perswading my selfe, that I must needes haue good successe, being neere so faire and diuine an obiect, and in such a place; And so followed her on with a panting heart, more shaking than the birde _Sisura_, or a

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

How the wilfull rashe - nes, or tirannicall minde doeth abase them, and make them, though in vtter porte thesame princes, yet in verie déede, thei

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

A dainty bit in Sidney's “Apologie for Poetrie” seems to me aptly to characterize our author's prose: “The uttering sweetly and properly the conceits of the minde, which is the end of speech.”

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

Your minde is the cleerer, and your vertues the fairer, hee that is proud eates up him-selfe: Pride is his owne glasse, his owne trumpet, his owne chronicle, and what ever praises it selfe but in the deed, devoures the deed in the praise.

The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition) 1609

Otherwise, if his motiues be deriued from a vertuous and heroycall minde, preferring chiefly the honour of God, compassion of poore infidels captiued by the deuill, tyrannizing in most woonderfull and dreadfull maner ouer their bodies and soules; aduancement of his honest and well disposed countreymen, willing to accompany him in such honourable actions: reliefe of sundry people within this realme distressed: all these be honourable purposes, imitating the nature of the munificent God, wherewith he is well pleased, who will assist such an actour beyond expectation of man.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

“Truely (said he) it euidently nowe appeareth, that I am endewed with two mindes: with the one I haue plaied the philosopher, with loue that vntrue Sophistre: for ther is no one minde which is good and badde, and at one time is rapt with the loue of good and euil thinges, ne yet at one instant can wil and will not together.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

"And the recreation of the minde which is taken heereby cannot be but verie good and honest, for they admonish and stir up a man to that which is comely and honest.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

I have a lot of respect for poeple, like P. Clinon, who are able to change his minde, Samesexmarrige must be valid.

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