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There are two instances of Justus Lipsius in two chapters.
Normalized frequency of Justus Lipsius in the Essays
so, both by that and other ways of writing; as for example, Lipsius, in that learned and laborious contexture of his Politics. …
much do I wish that, whilst I live, either some other or Justus Lipsius, the most learned man now living, of a most polite and judicious …