Now then the Ingenious Fowler, like a Politickand sagacious Warrior, must first furnish and store himself with those several Stratagems and Engines, as suit with the diversities of Occasion (i.
The London Jilt: Or, The Politick Whore, in two parts.
True, and this might be a strong Inducement to a politick Minister to make Choice of him, & may make him the fittest Instrument to answer his Purpose.
To learn of an enemy has always been accounted politick and honourable; and therefore I hope it will raise no prejudices against my project, to confess that I borrowed it from a Frenchman.
Thus health, ascribed to the body natural, is opposed to sickness; but attributed to the body politick stands as contrary to adversity.
It may be considered, (said the gentleman,) whether it would not be politick to tolerate in such a case.
I think it is NOT politick to tolerate in such a case.
Later on Sir Politick gives instructions for travellers: "Some few particulars I have set down, Only for this meridian, fit to be known Of your crude traveller.
I think it is not politick to tolerate in such a case.
Sir Politick gives counsels to the young Peregrine, which are a manifest satire upon Polonius' fatherly farewell speech to Laertes; and here again, let it be observed, religious tendencies are made the subject of persiflage.
The talkative Lady Politick wishes to offer some distraction to the apparently sick Volpone.
Beauty alone goes now at too cheap rates; And therefore they, like Wise andPolitick States, Court a new Power that may the old supply, To keep as well as gain the Victory.
When the terrible fasting day was come, if he were sick in bed, no remedy, he must up and to Kirk; and that without a mouthful of Bread to stay his Stomach; for he fasted then in his Politick Capacity.
Is she so quickly become an old acquaintance, that none of the politick assignations at her Lodgings are remembred?
The Rights of the Colonists as Subjects A Common Wealth or state is a body politick or civil society of men, united together to promote their mutual safety and prosperity, by means of their union.
If the people of this province are a part of the body politick of Great Britain, they have as such a right to be consulted in the making of all acts of the British parliament of what nature soever.
The same Method has been observ'd by that Nation ever since; and if Lewis le Grand does not make a Politick Use of King James II.
But as King James was not only to be the Dupe of their great Monarch, but the Sport and Game of his Ministers, besides a general Topick of refusing him an Assistance upon the Politick Motive of prolonging the War.
Hand of that Contest between the King and Parliament; but that Politick Cardinal instead of this Method, had Emissaries in the English Cabinet to exaggerate Matters between them.
And if King James has not often been heard to let drop Expressions as if he regarded himself no otherwise than a Politick Prisoner, I am very much misinform'd by those who constantly attended his Person.
But I never meddled much in politick affairs, except at this time, when I prohibited Andrew Pringle, my son, from offering to be a member of Parliament, notwithstanding the great bargain that he would have had of the place.
One time, this Politick Peer, as he would be thought, was very handsomely met with, the Story is this, whether designedly or no it matters not.
Covenants and oaths are badges of dissembling, 'Tis the politick pulls down the pure.
Their last attempt answered the proposed end so well, that we may be certain, so politick an enemy, instigated by revenge, will omit no opportunity of playing the same successful engine once more against us.
After Hannibal had laid Saguntum in ashes, did the boasted wisdom and firmness of the Roman senate appear in more vigorous, or more politick measures?
His politick Father the Protector smiles too, Resolve to see the ceremony of the Queen 'Twill be a day of state.
He took care, in his weekly sermons, to make known his opinion of these "politick heads" and to give the people timely warning of the chastisement with which God would certainly visit the nation for permitting idolatry.
As the politick knight's creeping out, and attacking the dragon, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "politick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
