This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...my implements, springs and motions, embrace and claspe this 1 Cie. Acad. Qn. 1 iv. opinion, and to the utmost of their power j warrant the same: I could not possibly embrace any verity, nor with more assurance keepe it, than I doe this. I am wholy and absolutely given to it: but hath it not beene my ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...my implements, springs and motions, embrace and claspe this 1 Cie. Acad. Qn. 1 iv. opinion, and to the utmost of their power j warrant the same: I could not possibly embrace any verity, nor with more assurance keepe it, than I doe this. I am wholy and absolutely given to it: but hath it not beene my fortune, not once, but a hundred, nay a thousand times, nay daily, to have embraced some other thing with the very same instruments and condition which upon better advise I have afterward judged false? A man should at the least become wise at his owne cost, and learne by others harmes. If 1 under this colour I have often found my, selfe deceived, if my Touch-stone be commonly found false and my ballance un-even and unjust; what assurance may I more take of it at this time than at others? Is it I not folly in me to suffer my selfe so often to be beguiled and couxened by one guide? N evert he lesse, let fortune remove us five hundred times from our place, let her doe nothing but incessantly empty and fill, as in a vessel, other and other opinions in our mind, the present and last is alwaies supposed certaine and infallible. For this must a man leave goods, honour, life, state, health and all: ----posterior res ilia repcrta Perdttx et immutat sensns ad prist inn qtueque.1 The latter thing destroies all found before; And alters sense at all things lik'd of yore. Whatsoever is told us, and what ever we learne, we should ever remember: it is man that delivereth and man that receiveth: it is a mortall hand that presents it, and a mortall hand that receives it. Onely things which come to us from heaven have right and authority of perswasion and markes of truth: which we neither see with our eyes nor receive by our meanes: this sacred and great image...
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