Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

Table of figures

< >
< >
page |< < (180) of 370 > >|
360180That the Earth may be a Planet. quod inter tot gentes ferro & igni dividitur.
11Sen. Nat.
Quæſt
. l. 1.
Nonne
&
terrena
a-
nimalia

conſider
a-
tis
, quibus
præſidere

videami-
ni
? Nam
ſi
inter
mures
vi-
deres
u-
num
ali-
quem
, jus
ſibi
ac po-
teſtatem

præ
cæteris
vindican-
tem
, quan-
to
movere-
ris
cha-
chinno
,
&c.
Boëius
de
Conſol
.l.2.
’Tis but a little Point, which with ſo much
ado
is diſtributed unto ſo many Nations
by
Fire and Sword.
What great matter is
it
to be a Monarch of a ſmall part of a Point?
Might not the Ants as well divide a little
Mole-hill
into divers Provinces, and keep as
great
a ſtir in diſpoſing of their Govern-
ment
?
Punctum eſt illud in quo Navigatis, in
quo
Bellatis, in quo Regna diſponitis.
All this
place
wherein we War, and Travel, and
diſpoſe
of Kingdoms, is but a Point far leſs
than
any of thoſe ſmall Stars, that at this
diſtance
are ſcarce diſcernable.
Which when
the
Soul does ſeriouſly meditate upon, it
will
begin to deſpiſe the narrowneſs of its
preſent
Habitation, and think of providing
for
it ſelf a Manſion in thoſe wider Spaces
above
, ſuch as may be more agreeable to the
Nobleneſs
and Divinity of its Nature.
Quicunq; ſolam mente præcipiti petit
22Boëtius
Ibid
.
Summumq; credit gloriam, Late patentes ætheris cernat plagas, Arctumq; terrarum ſitum.

Text layer

  • Dictionary

Text normalization

  • Original
  • Regularized
  • Normalized

Search


  • Exact
  • All forms
  • Fulltext index
  • Morphological index