Castelli, Benedetto, Of the mensuration of running waters, 1661

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              <s>CONSIDERATIONS
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              Concerning the
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              LAKE
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              OF
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              VENICE.</s>
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              CONSIDERATION II.
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              <s>If the diſcourſing well about the truth of
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              things, Moſt Serene Prince, were as the
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              carrying of Burdens, in which we ſee
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              that an hundred Horſes carry a greater
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              weight than one Horſe onely; it would
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              ſeem that one might make more account
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              of the opinion of many men, than of
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              one alone; But becauſe that diſcourſing
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              more reſembleth running, than carrying
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              Burdens, in which we ſee that one Barb alone runneth faſter
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              than an hundred heavy-heel'd Jades; therefore I have ever more
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              eſteemed one Concluſion well managed, and well conſidered by
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              one underſtanding man, although alone, than the common and
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              Vulgar opinions; eſpecially, when they concern abſtruce and
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              arduous points: Nay in ſuch caſes the opinions moulded and
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              framed by the moſt ignorant and ſtupid Vulgar, have been ever
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              ſuſpected by me as falſe, for that it would be a great wonder if
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              in difficult matters a common capacity ſhould hit upon that
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              which is handſom, good, and true. </s>
              <s>Hence I have, and do hold
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              in very great veneration the ſumme of the Government of the
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              moſt Serene, and eternal Republick of
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              Venice
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              ; which although,
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              as being in nature a Common-wealth, it ought to be governed by
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              the greater part; yet nevertheleſs, in arduous affairs, it is alwaies
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              directed by the Grave Judgement of few, and not judged blindly </s>
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