Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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by the
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Plebeian
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poſitions far above the reach of common capacity, runneth a
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great hazard of being very often condemned without further Pro
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ceſs, or knowledge of the Cauſe; but yet for all that, the truth
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is not to be deſerted in moſt weighty affairs, but ought rather to
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be explained in due place and time with all poſſible perſpicuity;
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that ſo being well underſtood, and conſidered, it may come after
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wards for the Common good to be embraced.</
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>This which I ſpeak in general, hath often been my fortune in
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very many particulars, not onely when I have kept within the
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bounds of meer ſpeculation, but alſo when I have chanced to de
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ſcend to Practice, and to Operations: and your Highneſs know
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eth very well what befel me the laſt Summer 1641. when in obe
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dience to your Soveraign Command, I did in full Colledge repre
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ſent my thoughts touching the ſtate of the Lake of
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Venice
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there not being ſuch wanting, who without ſo much as vouch
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ſafing to underſtand me, but having onely had an inkling, and
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bad apprehenſion of my opinion, fell furiouſly upon me, and by
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violent means both with the Pen and Preſs, full of Gall, did abuſe
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me in reward of the readineſs that I had expreſt to obey and
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ſerve them: But I was above meaſure encouraged and pleaſed, to
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ſee that thoſe few who vouchſafed to hear me, were all either
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thorowly perſwaded that my opinion was well grounded, or at
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leaſt ſuſpended their prudent verdict to more mature deliberati
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that was totally contrary to the moſt received and antiquated
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opinion, and to the reſolutions and conſultations taken above an
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hundred years ago: Moved by theſe things, and to ſatisfie alſo
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to the promiſe that I had made of tendering unto them what
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ſhould farther offer it ſelf unto me touching the ſame buſineſs; I
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have reſolved to preſent to the Throne of your Highneſs, another
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Conſideration of no leſs importance, which perhaps at firſt ſight
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will appear a ſtranger Paradox; but yet brought to the Teſt and
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Touch-ſtone of experience, it ſhall prove moſt clear and evident.
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your Highneſs, I ſhall have obtained my defire and intent: And
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if not, I ſhall have ſatisfied my ſelf, and ſhall not have been
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wanting to the Obligation of your moſt faithful Servant, and na
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tive ſubject.</
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>That which I propounded in the Mouths paſs, touching the
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moſt important buſineſs of the Lake, though it did onely expreſ
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ly concern the point of the diverſion of the Mouth of the Lake,
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already made and put in execution; yet it may be underſtood
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and applyed alſo to the diverſion under debate, to be made of
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the other five Rivers, and of the
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Sile
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