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- noun Obsolete spelling of
wealth .
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Examples
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Out of the which, because I rather fansie, if I maye with like commoditie, to folowe the founteines of the first Authours, then the brokes28 of abredgers, which often bring with them much puddle: I haue here translated, and annexed to the ende of this booke, those ordres of the Iewes commune welthe, sendyng the for the reste to the Bible.
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Pericles the noble Athe - nian in his oration made to the Athenians, sheweth that the glorie and welthe of one man or manie, cannot plante suche glorie, and renowne to their countrie, as that in all partes thereby to be beautified and decorated, but whe [n] glorie a hap - pie and florishyng state redoundeth to the kyngdome, the subiectes, the nobelles and hye peres, the gouuernour stan - deth happie and fortunate.
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Al the welthe of this worlde · and the woo bothe; and, in an immense plain, a "feld ful of folke," he notices the bustle and movements of mankind,
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Market townes of a reasonable price and also by reason of the same fisshing many men were made and grewe riche and many poure Men and women had therebie there convenyent lyving -- to the strengthe encreasing and welthe of this realme.
The Story of Newfoundland Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead 1901
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His elegant Mark consists of a massive architectural panel, adorned with wreaths of fruit, and bearing in the centre an oval within which is a pelican feeding her young, surrounded by the mottoes, “Love kepyth the Lawe, obeyeth the Kynge, and is good to the commen welthe,” and “Pro Rege Lege et Grege.”
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In whiche they did continue euen vnto the destruction of their common welthe [c].
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874
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But perchance, som will say, I haue stepte to farre, out of my schole, into the common welthe, from teaching
The Scholemaster 1870
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She sholde noght han walked on that welthe · so was it thred-bare.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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But perchance, som will say, I haue stepte to farre, out of my schole, into the common welthe, from teaching
The Scholemaster 1570
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But my purpose was hereby, plainlie to vtter, what iniurie is offered to all learninge, & to the common welthe also, first, by the fond father in chosing, but chieflie by the lewd scholemaster in beating and driuing away the best natures from learning.
The Scholemaster 1570
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