him the innumerable multitude of his enemies, specially as they appeared by the infinite number of lights as it had been a new firmament of sta se they thought they should not be disproved;” said Alexander, laughing, “See the subtleties of Aristotle, to take a matter both ways, pro et ecret grudge to Callisthenes, because he was against the new ceremony of his adoration, feasting one night where the same Callisthenes was at the table, it was mov gh that significant distinction, so much in all ages embraced, that he made between his two friends Hephaestion and Craterus, when he said, “That the one loved Alexan Which felicity of times under learned princes (to keep still the law of brevity, by using the most eminent and selected examples) doth best appear in the age which passed from the death of Domitianus the emperor until the reign of Commodus the Roman Empire (which then was a model of the world) enjoyed — a matter revealed and prefigured unto Domitian in a dream the night before he east returned to his own nature; wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men, who arfull of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profi long is society and peace maintained; but if these instruments be silent, or that sso much is verified by experience, that under learned princes and governors there have been ever the best times: for howsoever kings may have their
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