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O then (quoth Midleton) thou soule of all What euer boasts in magnanimitie, Thou, whom pure Vertue her best part doth call,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Well may you see Ulisses in a storme and in other hard plights, but they are but exercises of patience & magnanimitie, to make them shine the more in the neare following prosperitie.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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For by what conceit can a tongue bee directed to speake evil of that which draweth with him no lesse champions then Achilles, Cirus, Aeneas, Turnus, Tideus {90}, Rinaldo {91}, who doeth not onely teache and moove to a truth, but teacheth and mooveth to the most high and excellent truth: who maketh magnanimitie and justice, shine through all mistie fearfulnesse and foggie desires.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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Euen so parsimonie and illiberalitie are greater vices in a Prince then in a priuate person, and pusillanimitie and iniustice likewise: for to th'one, fortune hath supplied inough to maintaine them in the contrarie vertues, I meane, fortitude, iustice, liberalitie, and magnanimitie: the Prince hauing all plentie to vse largesse by, and no want or neede to driue him to do wrong.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Finally how could he so naturally paint out the speeches, countenance and maners of Princely persons and priuate, to wit, the wrath of _Achilles_, the magnanimitie of
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Finallie, in memorie of the said Elfleds magnanimitie and valorous mind, this epitaph was fixed on hir toome.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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IF only Zopyrus had enterprised this valiaunt act, and that no memorie were remainyng in anie age of the noble acts of other men, it may seme not true - lie chronacled, but from time to time, in all ages & co [m] mon wealthes, famous men for their acts & nobilitie haue ben, whiche with like courrage and magnanimitie haue sa -
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So we commending her Maiestie for the wisedome bewtie and magnanimitie likened her to the Serpent, the Lion and the
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Better it wer to haue many soche deformed bodies, then the whole state of the realme destroied or brought to naught: if we weigh the magnanimitie of that man, and his enterprise, there is so moche honour in the fact, that his fame shall neuer cease.
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THere nedeth no doute to rise of possibilitie, seinge that examples doe remain of famous men, of god - lie and well affected persones, whiche haue with like magnanimitie putte in daunger their life, to
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