Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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works contain all things knowable, it muſt follow alſo that they
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Sagredus,
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make no jeſt of this advice, which me
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thinks you rehearſe in too Ironical a way; for it is not long ſince
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that a very eminent Philoſopher having compoſed a Book
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de animà,
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wherein, citing the opinion of
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Ariſtotle,
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about its being or not
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ing immortal, he alledged many Texts, (not any of thoſe
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fore quoted by
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Alexander ab Alexandro
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Ariſtotle
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had not ſo much as treated of that matter, much leſs
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termined any thing pertaining to the ſame, but others) by himſelf
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found out in other more abſtruſe places, which tended to an
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roneous ſenſe: and being adviſed, that he would find it an hard
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matter to get a Licence from the Inquiſitors, he writ back unto
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his friend, that he would notwithſtanding, with all expedition
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procure the ſame, for that if no other obſtacle ſhould interpoſe,
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he would not much ſcruple to change the Doctrine of
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Ariſtotle,
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and with other expoſitions, and other Texts to maintain the
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trary opinion, which yet ſhould be alſo agreeable to the ſenſe of
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A brave
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Peripatetick
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me that I ſtir not a ſtep from
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Ariſtotle,
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but will himſelf lead
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him by the noſe, and make him ſpeak as he pleaſeth. </
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much it importeth to learn to take
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Time
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Fore-top.
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Hercules,
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whil'ſt he is
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raged, and amongſt the Furies, but when he is telling merry tales
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amongſt the
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Meonion Damoſels.
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Ah, unheard of ſordidneſſe of
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ſervile ſouls! to make themſelves willing ſlaves to other mens
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nions; to receive them for inviolable Decrees, to engage
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ſelves to ſeem ſatisfied and convinced by arguments, of ſuch
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cacy, and ſo manifeſtly concludent, that they themſelves
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not certainly reſolve whether they were really writ to that
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poſe, or ſerve to prove that aſſumption in hand, or the contrary.
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themſelves, whether the Author himſelf hath held the affirmative
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Log, and to run to that for anſwers, to fear that, to reverence
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Aristotle,
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who have
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in champion places, and open plains, the blind only ſtand in need
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of a Leader; and for ſuch, it is better that they ſtay at home.
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a man chooſe for his Guid. </
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ſpeak this, for that I am againſt hearing of
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