Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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do for the moſt part cloſe with thoſe produced by the grave
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thours firſt above mentioned. </
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Peripatetick
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by reaſon of its antiquity, hath had many followers and
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fautors, and the other very few; firſt, for its obſcurity, and next,
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for its novelty, yet methinks I diſcover amongſt thoſe many,
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and particularly amongſt the modernes ſome, who for the
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port of the opinion by them eſteemed true, have introduced
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other reaſons ſufficiently childiſh, I could ſay ridiculous.</
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yours, that I bluſh to rehearſe them, not ſo much to ſpare the fame
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of their Authours, the names of whom might be perpetually
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cealed, as becauſe I am aſhamed ſo much to ſtain the honour of
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mankinde. </
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there are who prepoſterouſly reaſoning, firſt ſtabliſh the
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ſion in their fancy, and (either becauſe it is their own, or elſe
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longs to a perſon whom they much confide in) ſo firmly imprint
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it in their opinions, that it is altogether impoſſible ever wholly to
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efface it: and thoſe reaſons which they themſelves ſtumble upon,
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or which they hear others to alledge in confirmation of the
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ceit entertained, though never ſo ſimple and inſipid, inſtantly find
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credit and applauſe with them: but on the contrary, thoſe which
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are brought againſt their opinion, though ingenuous and
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ding, they receive not only with nauſeating, but with diſdain and
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bitter indignation, yea, you ſhall have one of theſe ſo inraged, as
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that he will not be backward to try all wayes to ſuppreſs and ſilence
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their adverſaries: and of this I my ſelf have had ſome experience.</
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Some in arguing
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firſt fix in their
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ſion beleeved by
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them, and then
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dapt their reaſons
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to that.
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premiſes, nor confirme them with reaſons, but accomodate, or to
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ſay better, diſcommodate and diſtort the premiſes and arguments
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to make them ſpeak in favour of their pre-aſſumed and
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ous concluſions. </
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with theſe men; and the rather, for that their converſation is not
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only unpleaſant, but alſo dangerous. </
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ference with
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Simplicius
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however, whom I have known this long
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while for a man of great ingenuity, and altogether void of malice:
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beſides he is well verſt in the Peripatetick Doctrine; ſo that I may
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aſſure my ſelf, that what ſhall not fall within the reach of his
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ſon for the ſupport of the
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Ariſtotelian
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Hypotheſis, will not eaſily
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winde, whoſe company we have ſo long deſired: we were juſt now
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ſpeaking againſt the ſmall haſt you made to come to us.</
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Neptune,
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for this my long
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ſtay; which in the ebbe of this mornings tide hath in a manner
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drain'd away the waters, for the
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Gondola
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that brought me, being
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entered not far from hence into a certain Channel, wanting depth, </
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