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and Generosit o Mindri There fore it has eve held that Honour in re Monarchies, o Common-wealth S, have more Oeetnessthan unde Tyranis; ecause a Commandove the illin is more honou rabie hanove the Forced, and Compelled. Anythere- fore Virgil, he he ould exert himself todra forti, fro in the Depth of Art, the ver best o Human Honourg, to assigna λι- gustus Caesar, oes it in these ver Wordst Victorq; olentes Per populos datjura, viamq; affectat Olympo.

Georg. q.

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there is notoineri Eart whicli et up iis Throne an Chair of State, as it ere, in the Spirit an Souis of en, an in their Thoughis and Imaginations their Assent also and Belies, ut earn in and Knowledge. An theresere e se the detestabie and extrem Plealare that Arch-Ηeretichs, False Propheis, and great Impostors, are ravissi'd, and transporte with, hen once the findiliat he have egu to eig in the Falthan Consciences of Mens in dee se great, that he that hasin ceria sted it, an hardi bebrought by an Persecution or Torment, Orelinquish and abandoniis Sovere ignty Andas his is that hicli is called in the Revelations The Dept o Profoun ines of Satan , seon the contrary, a just an larusul Soverei gn-t ove Men' Minds, stablimed by the mere Evideiace, and uio delightia Recommendatio of Truth, approaches certaini as ears possibi to the Similitude of the Divine

plis and advance the Fortune and Estate os private Persons. For it is an ancient Observation, That Homer has giυen more Menthei Liυing than Sylla, Caesar, or Augustus notruimstandin their numerous Largesses,

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the ingdom, et earnin has generat lycarried the Prieli hood, hici has everinood in Competition illi Empire.

AGAIN, is o conside the Delightand Pleas ure of nowledge, si uredi it farsurpasses ait ther Pleas ures. For hat Shall, it a be the Pleas ures of the Assections a sar exceed the Delights of the enses, a the happy obtaining of a Desire, oes a Song, or a Suppe : An sia allis ot by the sanae radation the Pleas ures of the Intellecttranscend those of the Affections allother Pleasu res Satiet is eigh bour and

after the have been sed, and arearoNn alitile state, thei Verdure and ea ut fades, whereb me a re instructed that the wereno trul pure and sincere Pleas ures, ut Sha-dow only, and Fallacies of Plealares, and that it was the Novel ty hich pleasM, athertha the Qualit henc voluptuous Men

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SUAVE mari magno turbantibus aequora Uentis, C.

pleasanter o a mn, than a Mind plantes , ' Learning, an the Cittarili Truth, from misenoeat may descry the Error ani anderings, the Perturbations and Labours of other Men. LAST LY; mittin thos vulgar Arguments vim. That hy Learn in g, an excelis Ma in that, herein Man ex est the Brutes , That by the Hel of Learning Manascend in his Understanding, even to the Ne avens, to hicli in Body e cannot and the likeri let us conclude this Dissertation concerning the Excellene of Learn in g, withilia Good hereunt Man' Nature dothinosi aspire, hicli is, Immortalit an diterni ty. For to this en d Generation the Ennoblingis a milies, Bulldings, o undations,

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Monuments Fame, and in hori, thecium os

more durable the Monuments of i and Learn in Mare, than hos of Works an Mani: factu res Have no the Verses o Homercontinued a Centuries of ears, and above,

without the os of a Syllabie, or et ter During hicli Time, an infinite umber of Palaces, Temples, Casiles, and Cities have de-cayed an fallen, o been demolimV. Thetrue Pictures, o Statues of Irus, Alexander, Caesar, ab of Κing and Princes of much lateraears, can' postibi no b has for theoriginals Worn way long since lili Agriare peristi 'd and the optes atly lose of thei Primitive Resemblance Aut the Images of Men's Wits uernain entire in Books fore ver exempt frona therinjuries of Time, te cause capable os perpetua Renovation es Thesthe cata' properly be calle Images ei ther, hecause they a re perpetuali generatin ascit were, and caltering thei See in the Mindsos Men, and aisan and procreat in infinite Actions. an Opinions in succeedini Ages. No is the Inventionis the hip rua thought si nobi and wonderi ut a Thing, hici transporis Riches an Mercliandis frona lacerio

Place, and consociales the naost remote Regions by a Participationis thei Productions, and Commodities ho much more re Letters to in magnitie do hich, as hips fur-ro Wing the Ocean of Time, connec the ost

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distant Agesi a Commerce an Correspondence in iis and Inventions λNA furthe we ee, some of the Philosophers, that were mos sun in Flesti and Sense, and leas Divine, and that peremptorii dente the Immortalit of the Soul, et drive loci by the orce of Truth, granted

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pina's Choice Occidat matrem, modo Imperet

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De Aigmentis Scientiarasm. Lib. I. Prosen .H E Acts and works per in ingto the Ad vancement of Learn in g, 3 re con Versant about three Ob

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Acts of erit tomarri Learning II so Knowledge, hether it distili homilis vine Inspiration, o spring rom Humau Sense, ould oon perissi ali and vanissi, fit ere o preseru' in Books, Traditions, Conferen ces; and speciali in particular Places designe to that nil, a Uniυesties, Colleges Schooliri here it a both navefix'd Stations an Porue and Abilit tu nite

certi the eat of the Mufer are Four e Foundations o Houses 3 Endo ments of Revenues Grant of Privileges , Instia tutions an Statute for overn ment Ali tendin to Privatenes and Quiet-nes of Lise, an a Discharge rom Cares an Troubles , much like Virgilli ea quisites for the uildin o Hives in Or- de to Mahemoney. Principio sedes apibus, satioq; petenda

Virg. Georg. 4 Fir' for th Bees quiet Station sing

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BUT the orks ouch in Boosi, reprincipali two First, Libraries, herein, as in statet Monuments the Reliques of the Antient alnis, ut o true Viriue, and that without Delusion or Imposture,are preserved, and reposed Secondi , ne Editions of Authors, furnissa'd illi more correct Impressions, more Dithsul Translations more sesul Comments more diligent Annotations. and the like Train. AGAIN, the orks hicli regard the Persens of Learne Meii, besides the adinvancin and countenancing of them in generat are likeruise two : The eruard and Designation o Readers, in Sciences atready invente and norun and the Designation os riter an EnquirerS, On- Cerning an Paris of earning no hi-therio sussicienti laboured an impro-

Acts, herein the erit o Renowned Princes, and ther illustrious Personages, toruard the State of earning have hone. AI for an particular Commemoration o Person that have deserv'd et of Learning, heia I th in thereupon, I call