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both sides; let them be lions, but yet lions under
the throne; being circumspect that they do not
check or oppose any points of sovereignty. Let not
judges also be so ignorant of their own right as to
think there is not left to them, as a principal part of
their office, a wise use and application of laws. For
they may remember what the apostle saith of a
greater law than theirs: Nos scimus quia lex bona
est, modo quis ed zttatur legiHmb.
 

LVI I.

OF ANGER.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery
of the Stoics. We have better oracles : " Be angry,
but sin not," " Let not the sun go down upon your
anger." Anger must be limited and confined, both
in race and in time. We will first speak how the
natural inclination and habit to be angry may be
attempered and calmed.    Secondly, how the par-

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