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A Painter shewing an ill Picture, bragg’d that he had finish’d it in a very little Time: you need not tell us of it, said Apelles, your Picture speaks it planly enough.
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Un Peintre montrant un mauvais Tableau, se vantoit de l’avoir achevé en fort peu de tems: tu n’as que faire, dit Apelles, de nous en avertir, ton Tableau le dit assez.
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Melanthus hearing the Philosopher Gorgias exhort in Publick the Grecians to Concord; This is a fine Man indeed, said he, thus to endeavour to perswade all these Grecians to that Peace and Unity which he cannot settle at home betwixt himself, his Wife and his Maid.
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Melanthus entendant le Philosophe Gorgias exhorter publiquement les Grecs à la Concorde: Cét homme a bonne Grace, dit-il, de vouloir persuader à tous ces Grecs la Paix & l’Union, qu’il ne sauroit établir chez soy entre lui-même, sa Femme & sa Servante.
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Demetrius Phalereus used to exhort Ptolomeus to gather Books about Civil and Military Politicks: Because, said he, Kings will find in such Books those Things that their Friends dare not to tell them. To which purpose Alphonsus King of Aragon said: Books are the Counsellors I like best; ’tis not either Fear or Hope that will hinder them to tell me what I ought to do.