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reign etsi careat regno though

And oftentimes, which Machiavel seconds, [3957] Principes non sunt qui ob insignem virtutem principatu digni sunt , he that is most worthy wants employment; he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship, and he that could govern a commonwealth, a world itself, a king in conceit, wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage, and yet all this while he is a better man that is fit to reign, etsi careat regno , though he want a kingdom, [3958] than he that hath one, and knows not how to rule it: a lion serves not always his keeper, but oftentimes the keeper the lion, and as [3959] Polydore Virgil hath it, multi reges ut pupilli ob inscitiam non regunt sed reguntur .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

returning empty can reach the

They should be placed so that the truck returning empty can reach the turnout before the loaded
— from Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

riding easily cautiously ready to

Slim was riding easily, cautiously, ready to take the trail of the first rustler who made a break for liberty.
— from Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning by Graham M. Dean

remained except court records to

Five years thereafter nothing remained except court records to show they had ever existed.
— from Vanishing Landmarks: The Trend Toward Bolshevism by Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier) Shaw

reasonable extent can review these

But on this point I cannot refrain from insisting that no man who can divest himself of prejudice to only a reasonable extent can review these proceedings without being satisfied that the objection I have made to the course of the Chief Justice in [310] this regard is well founded.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

riding express could reach the

The governor, in the meantime, entrusted dispatches to Carson, thinking that he, by riding express, could reach the caravan before the governmental troops could come to their aid.
— from Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

rattlesnakes eh cheerfully remarked the

"Sort of rattlesnakes, eh?" cheerfully remarked the irrepressible Herc.
— from The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice by John Henry Goldfrap

Road El Camino Real to

Mrs. Averill was the first woman to enter the Board of Education; and in her honor a bell was placed on the Mission Road, El Camino Real, to celebrate her seventieth birthday.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

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