[3319]. I read a considerable part of your speech before dinner, but after I had dined I finished it completely. Oh what arguments, what eloquence!
[3320]. Pluvines.
[3321]. Thibault.
[3322]. As in travelling the rest go forward and look before them, an antiquary alone looks round about him, seeing things past, &c. hath a complete horizon. Janus Bifrons.
[3323]. Cardan. “What is more subtle than arithmetical conclusions; what more agreeable than musical harmonies; what more divine than astronomical, what more certain than geometrical demonstrations?”
[3324]. Hondius praefat. Mercatoris. “It allures the mind by its agreeable attraction, on account of the incredible variety and pleasantness of the subjects, and excites to a further step in knowledge.”
[3325]. Atlas Geog.
[3326]. Cardan. “To learn the mysteries of the heavens, the secret workings of nature, the order of the universe, is a greater happiness and gratification than any mortal can think or expect to obtain.”
[3327]. Lib. de cupid. divitiarum.
[3328]. Leon. Diggs. praefat. ad perpet. prognost.