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He testifies to the “delectation and profit of the mountains, which do thereby ... amplifie the goodness of God in his works” (p. 39).

COSMIC FALL R. W. HEPBURN 1968

Then Ascyltos having got heart again, began to amplifie the delight he took in having pillag'd Lycurgus; of whose miserableness he, not without cause, complain'd; for he neither paid him for his nights service, nor kept a table that had either meat, or drink on't, being such a sordid pinch-peny; that, notwithstanding his infinite wealth, he deny'd himself the common necessaries of life.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Of argument, because proponing such matter as our aduersarie might obiect and then to answere it our selues, we do vnfurnish and preuent him of such helpe as he would otherwise haue vsed for himselfe: then because such obiection and answere spend much language it serues as well to amplifie and enlarge our tale.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The heavens are angry, and I may say envious of the extension and large privilege we ascribe to human wisdome, to the prejudice of theirs: and abridge them so more unto us, by so much more we endeavour to amplifie them. '

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

The vse of circũstances profiteth to amplifie, to extenuate, to euidence, to confirmacion, and probabilitie.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

This is not the way to amplifie and inlarge your Empire, but rather to restraine and diminish the same.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

The common place, whiche Aphthonius intreateth of, is to be aplied against any man, for the declaimor to inuade, ei - ther against vices, or to extoll and amplifie his vertues.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

Emperour, that were more marciall and warlike, through whose succour and counsaile they might not onely conserue the thinges gotten, but also amplifie the boundes and limites of their Empire.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

The jollitie wherein I live, the pleasure and the strength make the other seeme so disproportionable from that, that by imagination I amplifie these commodities by one moitie, and apprehended them much more heavie and burthensome, than I feele them when I have them upon my shoulders.

That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

Let Aristophanes and his comedians make plaies, and scowre their mouthes on Socrates; those very mouthes they make to vilifie, shall be the meanes to amplifie his vertue.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897