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Credere verbis istorum est, ac si auribus lupum teneas. From this time his mind was made up: he would leap the Rubicon: he would go in for the forgery, and his friend must have confidence in him. My heart is in the work, though I question my powers."

Malo meorum negligentiam, quam istorum obscuram diligentiam. I have the honor, &c., BEACONSFIELD, January 19th, 1791. See Burnet's Life of Hale. "Filiola tua te delectari lætor, et prohari tibi Φυσικὴν esse τὴν πρὸς τὰ τεκνα: etenim, si hæc non est, nulla potest homini esse ad hominem naturæ adjunctio: qua sublata, vitæ societas tollitur. Ep. ad Atticum.

After what I have formerly deliver'd to evince, That there are many Instances, wherein new Colours are produc'd or acquir'd by Bodies, which Chymists are wont to think destitute of Salt, or to whose change of Colours no new Accession of Saline Particles does appear to contribute, I think we may safely enough acknowledge, that we have taken notice of so many Changes made by the Intervention of Salts in the Colours of Mix'd Bodies, that it has lessen'd our Wonder, That though many Chymists are wont to ascribe the Colours of Such Bodies to their Sulphureous, and the rest to their Mercurial Principle; yet Paracelsus himself directs us in the Indagation of Colours, to have an Eye principally upon Salts, as we find in that passage of his, wherein he takes upon him to Oblige his Readers much by Instructing them, of what things they are to expect the Knowledge from each of the three distinct Principles of Bodies. Alias (says he) Colorum similis ratio est: De quibus brevem institutionem hanc attendite, quod scilicet colores omnes ex Sale prodeant. Sal enim dat colorem, dat Balsamum. And a little beneath. Iam natura Ipsa colores protrathit ex sale, cuique speciei dans illum, qui ipsi competit, &c. After which he concludes; Itaque qui rerum omnium corpora cognoscere vult, huic opus est, ut ante omnia cognoscat Sulphur, Ab hoc, qui desiderat novisse Colores is scientiam istorum petat

It is of those men of genius that Terrence speaks in opposition to the little artificial cavillers of his time: "Quorum aemulari expotat negligentiam Potius quam istorum obscuram diligentiam." "Whose negligence he would rather imitate, than these men's obscure diligence." A critic may have the same consolation in the ill success of his play as Dr.