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  • His slaves consult him not in selling aught whose price is less than one thousand gold pieces, but merchandise worth him an hundred and less they sell at their own discretion; nor cloth any merchandise whatever, little or much, leave the country without passing through his hands and he disposeth of it as he pleaseth; nor is a bale packed and sent abroad amongst folk but what is under his disposal.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Fear of death and wounds disposeth to the same, and for the same reason.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Add to them military reputation and it disposeth men to adhere and subject themselves to those men that have them.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Want of science, that is, ignorance of causes, disposeth or rather constraineth a man to rely on the advice and authority of others.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions, such as please them whose judgement they value; for of those men whom we contemn, we contemn also the praises.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Fear of oppression disposeth a man to anticipate or to seek aid by society: for there is no other way by which a man can secure his life and liberty.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Desire of ease, and sensual delight, disposeth men to obey a common power: because by such desires a man doth abandon the protection that might be hoped for from his own industry and labour.

    Leviathan 2007

  • To have received from one, to whom we think ourselves equal, greater benefits than there is hope to requite, disposeth to counterfeit love, but really secret hatred, and puts a man into the estate of a desperate debtor that, in declining the sight of his creditor, tacitly wishes him there where he might never see him more.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Pusillanimity disposeth men to irresolution, and consequently to lose the occasions and fittest opportunities of action.

    Leviathan 2007

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