politick

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Beauty alone goes now at too cheap rates; And therefore they, like Wise and Politick States, Court a new Power that may the old supply, To keep as well as gain the Victory.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

But if we disregard this Rule of Charity, we shall indeed give our Body Politick to be burned.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

For a good Prince is that to the Body Politick, which the Mind is to the Body Natural.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

The Belly is the Government, From whence the Nourishment is sent, Of wholesome Laws for mutual Peace, For Plenty, Liberty, and Ease, To all the Body Politick, Which where it fails the Nation's sick.

From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de

The Ingenious Fowler, like a Politick and sagacious Warrier, must first furnish and store himself with those several Stratagems and Engines, as suit with the diversities of Occasion, i.e.

From The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence by Howlett, Robert