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In EffcQ. very foon the Armies were only raifed and maintained at the Ex pence of manolo blahnik shoes this difintcrcftcd Minifter: He advifed the Conqueft of
It is true that thc People, accuftomcd to fancy a reebok zig Myftery and Prodigy in Things that furpri/.ed them, and were above their Comprchenfion, reported, lhat James Occur owed his Fortune to the Sccrcl of making Gold, which always ftrikes the Defire and Uefpair of Chymifts : but, it is truer, that all the Philofopher's Stone of this fortunate and able Mer¬chant only confifted in his great Trade; and that he knew no www.socrazyblog.com/ Chymiftry more proper to operate the Tranfmutaiion of Metals, than thc immenfc Traffick that furnifhed him w ith ihofc rich Merchandizes, of which his Storehoufes were always full, and which he exchanged with fo much Profit againft Gold and Silver, that an ignorant and crcdulous Populace attributed it to the Pcrfedion ofihc grand Work, which it irmgined he had ihe good Luck to find out. THE House ot^cr Example of Fortune ar.d
ot Glory, to which private Particulars had MCDICII. attained, by the Means only of Com- merer, is not lefs remarkable, though more illuftrious.
The Family of Medicit has been always praife- worthy and commendable, both for Antiquity and NoWeneft of its Origin, and the Grcatncfs of its Credit and Riches.
From the eleventh Century it has had great Men, and there is found in Hiftory an honourable Succeflion of thc Race of Medicit, who, in this firft Age of their Houfe, were equally diftinguifhed by the l.urtre of ecclefiaftical Dignities, by the Honour it acquired in the Profeflion of Arms, by that which it found in reebok zigtech the Government of States, and in thc chief Magiftra- cies of Cities.
It was not, however, 'till the Beginning of the fifteenth Century, that this Family (referved to fo great a Fate) ought properly to count thc Fpocha, or /Era ol its Elevation ; and it is to Co/mo de Medieis (that famous Citizen zigtech of Florence, who fo juftly merited the Name of Great, Father of thc People, and Deliverer of his Country)


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