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[...suited to the] idiom of every nation; the voice impressive and sweet; the feet swift; and all the limbs proportioned to one another and comely. In like manner also, a single and particular man hath not possessed of his own natural disposition all excellences at once; but one [possesseth] this virtue, and another that; one this science, and another that; one this manner of art, and another that. 4. Howbeit, a man having one manner of excellence, upon beholding many other sorts of excellences in others, being moved with a zealous emulation of what they possess, hath himself pursued [the same], and acquired [them] by industry, and become more perfect. And such zealous men, in whatever nation or city they have from time to time been born and flourished, by teaching in word and in deed both that which they naturally possessed and that which they acquired by industry, have cultivated that nation or city; and unto this day they cease not to endeavor to educate [it], and to render [it] more eminent and renowned. 5. In this manner, many lands which in the wo[rld]...