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  • Thine anger can but slay; nor do I think thy power extendeth, or thy will stretcheth, so far.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Also robbery and depeculation of the public treasury or revenues is a greater crime than the robbing or defrauding of a private man, because to rob the public is to rob many at once; also the counterfeit usurpation of public ministry, the counterfeiting of public seals, or public coin, than counterfeiting of a private man's person or his seal, because the fraud thereof extendeth to the damage of many.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth.

    The Essays 2007

  • But to call this power of God, which extendeth itself not only to man, but also to beasts, and plants, and bodies inanimate, by the name of kingdom, is but a metaphorical use of the word.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Therefore of both barrelles, I iudge Cookes and Painters the better hearing, for the one extendeth his arte no farther then to the tongue, palate, and nose, the other to the eye; and both are ended in outwarde sense, which is common too vs with bruite beasts.

    The More Things Change II Heo 2006

  • In which regard, let my perswasions prevaile with thee, and thereto I conjure thee, by the faith of a friend, suffer me to use mine authority, when it extendeth both to mine owne honour, and thy good, for I will have Sophronia to bee onely thine.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The faire young Damosell, is the Daughter to Marino Bulgaro, whose power extendeth so farre, as to preserve thy prerogative in Ischia, which (but for him) had long since bene out-rooted there.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I have heard (quoth Bruno) of such an experiment, and helde it to be infallible; but it extendeth onely unto persons of

    The Decameron 2004

  • My Tale (worthy Ladies) extendeth not to persons of so high birth or quality, as they were of whom

    The Decameron 2004

  • Beleeve me Sir, you never acquainted us with any such matter, which would have procured more carefull respect of it: but seeing it is gone, your skill extendeth to make more, for now there is no other remedy.

    The Decameron 2004

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