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  • Note 4: Taken from a phrase found in a set of instructions issued by the crown for Mary's 1525 household urging Mary's household officers to maintain the "good politique profitable and substantiall order of the householde"; BL Cotton Vitellius, C.i., f. 9v back

    From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

  • (Maybe as a male I was not the ideal person to have offer this kind of argument; there are women writing substantiall similar stuff.)

    Compassion and Abortion 2006

  • Moreover, I covet not that you should extend any clemency or kindnesse to me, but by my voluntary confession of the truth do intend (first of all) to defend mine honour, with reasons sound, good, and substantiall, and then vertuously pursue to full effect, the greatnesse of my minde and constant resolution.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Friuli, of a certaine territory called Portus Vahonis, and of the order of the minorites, do testifie and beare wimesse vnto the reuerend father Guidotus minister of the prouince of S. Anthony, in the marquesate of Treuiso (being by him required vpon mine obedience so to doe) that all the premisses aboue written, either I saw with mine owne eyes, or heard the same reported by credible and substantiall persons.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Wherein is proued not onely by authoritie of writers, but also by late experience of trauellers, and reasons of substantiall probabilitie, that the worlde in all his zones, clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable without any naturall anoyance to hinder the same

    The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

  • Physike, he did some faire cures to such such as were diseased, whereby he began to bee well trusted, and came in fauour with many substantiall folkes of the towne.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And knowing that not onely your renowned places, but also the singularitie of your education, by the prudent care of your noble progenitors hath and still doth induce and drawe you to fauour and imbrace whatsoeuer beareth but a seeming of the commonweales good: Much more then that which in substantiall truth shal be most beneficiall to the same.

    The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

  • And knowing that not onely your renowned places, but also the singularitie of your education, by the prudent care of your noble progenitors hath and still doth induce and drawe you to fauour and imbrace whatsoeuer beareth but a seeming of the commonweales good: Much more then that which in substantiall truth shal be most beneficiall to the same.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Wherein is proued not onely by authoritie of writers, but also by late experience of trauellers, and reasons of substantiall probabilitie, that the worlde in all his zones, clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable without any naturall anoyance to hinder the same

    The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

  • And knowing that not onely your renowned places, but also the singularitie of your education, by the prudent care of your noble progenitors hath and still doth induce and drawe you to fauour and imbrace whatsoeuer beareth but a seeming of the commonweales good: Much more then that which in substantiall truth shal be most beneficiall to the same.

    The Worldes Hydrographical Discription 2003

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