ciuill

• “Prince of Conde, cited in Jean de Serres, The three partes of commentaries containing the whole and perfect discourse of the ciuill warres of Fraunce, trans. from Latin by Thomas Timme London: Frances Coldocke, 1574, Fourth Book, 119, access via Early English Books On-Line.”

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• “Wilde Irish are as ciuill as the Russies in their kinde,”

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• “It hath bene wonne and lost 4. times within 7. yeeres by ciuill warres, by meanes whereof there are but few merchants in it, and they very poore, and in all that towne I could not sell about 4. kerseis.”

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• “Moscquites without any ciuill regiment possessed large and spacious territories towards the north, the foresayd three brethren, vpon the perswasion of one Gostomislius the chiefe citizen of Nouogrod, in the yeare since the worldes creation (acording to the computation of the Greekes) 6370, which was in the yeare of our”

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• “Lituania, and are farre more ciuill than the rest of the Tartars, of a comely person, and of a stately behauiour, as applying themselues to the fashion of the Polonian.”

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• “No good befalles a man that seeks, and findes no better place, No ciuill customes to be learned, where God bestowes no grace.”

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• “Beyond this land of Cathay, which they praise to be ciuill and vnspeakeably rich, is the countrey named in the Tartarian tongue”

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• “For which cause I wish you to enter into consideration of the matter, and to note all the Islands, and to set them downe in plat, to two ends: that is to say, That we may deuise to take the benefit by them, And also foresee how by them the Sauages or ciuill Princes may in any sort annoy vs in our purposed trade that way.”

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• “Now what might be made of these men if they were trained and broken to order and knowledge of ciuill wars?”

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• “And so ioyning their kinsman Olechus vnto them, and diuiding these huge countreys among themselues, they laboured to reduce the barbarous and sauage people vnto a ciuill kinde of life.”

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