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Page viii
... Reasons for it , had caused these two Differtations I have quoted to be printed at the End of his Work . ( C ) Moreri falsely imagined that it was a Satire againft Arria . ] I believe the true Cause of his Mistake was owing to thefe ...
... Reasons for it , had caused these two Differtations I have quoted to be printed at the End of his Work . ( C ) Moreri falsely imagined that it was a Satire againft Arria . ] I believe the true Cause of his Mistake was owing to thefe ...
Page xvi
... Reason for one to believe , that as a Poet he could not bear to be reflected upon , Nihil @que doluit , quam ut malum fe citharadum increpitum . Suet . in Nerone cap . XLI . Did not he ba- nish Cornutus , and had like to have put him to ...
... Reason for one to believe , that as a Poet he could not bear to be reflected upon , Nihil @que doluit , quam ut malum fe citharadum increpitum . Suet . in Nerone cap . XLI . Did not he ba- nish Cornutus , and had like to have put him to ...
Page xxii
... Reason than any Body elfe to apply to himself whatever was sharp or poignant in a Satire , provided there was the leaft Founda- tion for it , I am not at all furprized to fee , that Perfius bas affected to be ænigmatical and myfterious ...
... Reason than any Body elfe to apply to himself whatever was sharp or poignant in a Satire , provided there was the leaft Founda- tion for it , I am not at all furprized to fee , that Perfius bas affected to be ænigmatical and myfterious ...
Page xxiv
... Reason to prove that Perfius was of Volterra . They have it , fays he , by Tradition , that the Falconcini Family is defcended from Flaccus , a Roman Knight , the Father of Perfius ; which is the more likely to be true , as the Name of ...
... Reason to prove that Perfius was of Volterra . They have it , fays he , by Tradition , that the Falconcini Family is defcended from Flaccus , a Roman Knight , the Father of Perfius ; which is the more likely to be true , as the Name of ...
Page 8
... of the Stoic Philofophy , which ' main- tained that a wife Man should not make other People's Opinion , but his own right Reason only , his Rule of A ☆ ion . P. But P. But my unruly Spleen with Laughter fwells : What ' ( 8 )
... of the Stoic Philofophy , which ' main- tained that a wife Man should not make other People's Opinion , but his own right Reason only , his Rule of A ☆ ion . P. But P. But my unruly Spleen with Laughter fwells : What ' ( 8 )
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