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And though there were no man among them that had any skill, notwithstanding necessitie, which is the maistress of all sciences, taught them the way to build it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Wherfore, sith the necessitie with honour, and having dwelt comfortably at this and possessed of certain conclusions in respect of handsome painted glass. either the antiquaries highsouled assailant, caused the earth in that hic sapiens, de quo loquor, oculis quibus iste an eye, stood mace in hand.
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Throughout the letter, she insisted that it not just "my necessitie" but also, crucially, "myne honor," which was affected by her (in) ability to retain possession of the Woburn field.
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Whether throughe longe continuance of custome, or driuen by necessitie, or elles of nature: I cannot saye.
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This, by canonicalle decree, in time paste was not wonte to be giuen (excepte greate necessitie soner required it) but to those that had bene scholers a space afore, to learne the thinges appertinent to Christendome.
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Then happe found out fire, and reason gaue rule of profite, and disprofite, and necessitie toke in hand to sette witte to schoole.
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For Cornelius the stylle29 in his firste booke of his yerely exploictes, called in Latine Annales, dothe not ascribe their departure oute of Egipte to the power and commaundement of God: but vnto necessitie, and constrainte, with these wordes:
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But if necessitie constraine them to do it (as it often happeneth) then the tente of hym that did it, with all that is in it, muste be clensed and purified after this maner.
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And in these they shroude them selues fro the sonne: nature by necessitie diuising a way how to helpe and defende her selfe.
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Before whose doores it happened a child or twaine, begotten by a skape (whiche either for shame or necessitie could finde no mother, or for the nombre of parteners, no one propre father) to bee laide.
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