Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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profitable to the publick, to build a great part of their eſteem
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and reputation on the credit of
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Ariſtotle
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he is much puzzled and
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perplexed: and methinks I hear him ſay, To whom then ſhould
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we repair for the deciſion of our controverſies, if
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in the Schools, Academies and Studies? </
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writ all the parts of Natural Philoſophy, and that ſo methodically
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without omitting ſo much as one ſingle concluſion? </
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overthrow that Fabrick under which ſo many paſſengers find
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ſhelter? </
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Aſylum,
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Prytaneum,
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in ſo many Students meet with commodious harbour, where
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without expoſing themſelves to the injuries of the air, with the
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onely turning over of a few leaves, one may learn all the
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crets of Nature? </
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ſafe from all hoſtile aſſaults? </
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>But I pitie him no more than I do
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that Gentleman who with great expence of time and treaſure,
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and the help of many hundred artiſts, erects a very
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ous Pallace, and afterwards beholds it ready to fall, by reaſon
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of the bad foundation; but being extremely unwilling to ſee
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the Walls ſtript which are adorned with ſo many beautifull
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Pictures; or to ſuffer the columns to fall, that uphold the
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ly Galleries; or the gilded roofs, chimney-pieces, the freizes,
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the corniſhes of marble, with ſo much coſt erected, to be
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ned; goeth about with girders, props, ſhoars, butteraſſes, to
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vent their ſubverſion.</
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The Declamation
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Simplicius.</
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Simplicius
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as yet fears no ſuch fall, and
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I would undertake to ſecure him from that miſchief at a far
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leſs charge. </
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ſubtle and wiſe Philoſophers, ſhould ſuffer themſelves to be
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Hector'd
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by one or two, who make a little bluſtering; nay,
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they will rather, without ever turning the points of their pens
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againſt them, by their ſilence onely render them the object of
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univerſal ſcorn and contempt. </
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to think to introduce new Philoſophy, by reproving this or that
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Author: it will be firſt neceſſary to new-mold the brains of
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men, and make them apt to diſtinguiſh truth from falſhood. </
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thing which onely God can do. </
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whither are we ſtray'd? </
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Peripatetick
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loſophy
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able.
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upon the anſwer of
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Anti-Tycho,
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to the objections againſt the
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immutability of the Heavens, among which you inſerted this
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of the Solar fpots, not ſpoke of by him; and I believe you
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intended to examine his anſwer to the inſtance of the New
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Stars.</
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