Zanotti, Francesco Maria, Della forza de' corpi che chiamano viva libri tre, 1752

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            pe, e condottiere. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1800" xml:space="preserve">E pare che Senofonte, fingen-
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            d o di ſcriver l’ iſtoria del Re Ciro, abbia voluto
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            imitarli; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1801" xml:space="preserve">eſſendo opinione di molti, che egli, eſ-
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            ponendo le azioni, e le virtù di quel Re glorio-
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            ſiſſimo, non tali le eſponeſſe, quali furono, ma
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            quali a lui pareva, che eſſer doveſſero. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1802" xml:space="preserve">Platone
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            propoſe la forma d’ una perfetta repubblica, e fu
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            ſeguito nello ſteſſo argomento da Cicerone, il qua-
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            le vi aggiunſe anche quella dell’ ottimo oratore.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1803" xml:space="preserve">Ne potè Quintiliano aſtenerſi dal deſcrivere la me-
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            deſima, quantunque l’ aveſſe deſcritta Cicerone. </s>
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            E per laſciare gli antichi, venendo ai tempi ulti-
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            mi, et a noſtri, voi ſapete, che il Conte Baldaſ-
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            ſar Caſtiglione eſpoſe in quattro libri la perfetta
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            cortegiania per così fatto modo, che parve niuna
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            coſa potere immaginarſi ne più bella, ne più no-
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            bile, ne più magnifica di quel ſuo cortegiano; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1805" xml:space="preserve">il
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            qual però avrebbe, cred’ io, ceduto al voſtro a-
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            natomico, ſe come voi lo adombraſte una volta
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            in una voſtra belliſſima orazione, così aveſte poi
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            preſo cura di veſtirlo et ornarlo, e farlo vedere
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            agli occhi degli uomini ricco e fornito di tutte
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            quelle doti, e qualità, che ad un ſommo anato-
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            mico ſi conveniſſero. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1806" xml:space="preserve">Ma voi, diſtratto dalle vo-
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            ſtre moltiſſime, e graviſſime occupazioni, avete
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            voluto più toſto eſsere quell’ eccellentiſſimo a-
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            natomico, che formavate nell’ animo, che deſcri-
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            verlo. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1807" xml:space="preserve">Se dunque la forma, e la natura dell’
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            ottimo ha tirato a ſe lo ſtudio, e l’ attenzione
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            di tanti valentiſſimi ſcrittori nelle arti nobili, </s>
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