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ОглавлениеTHE FIRST COVENANT WARS
(1638-39)
As for discontentments, they are in the politic body like to humours in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat and to inflame. And let no prince measure the danger of them by this, whether they be just or unjust; for that were to imagine people to be too reasonable who do often spurn at their own good: nor yet by this, whether the griefs whereupon they rise be in fact great or small; for they are the most dangerous discontentments where the fear is greater than the feeling. Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
Bacon.
In 1639 even the most obscure woods began to be penetrated with flashes.
Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson.
