John Donne Quote

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne (ed. Oxford University Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9780199565481


As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament...

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament...