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"They are scientific works; and if you think yours is the only long head here, you are very much mistaken." "Very good, we shall see. I will lend this book to the 'long head, and do you bring me one from him." I had given him Petau's Rationarium, and in four minutes he brought me the first volume of Wolff's works.
"They are scientific works; and if you think yours is the only long head here, you are very much mistaken." "Very good, we shall see. I will lend this book to the 'long head, and do you bring me one from him." I had given him Petau's Rationarium, and in four minutes he brought me the first volume of Wolff's works.
Any one reading Latin with facility, having a good memory, and keeping a well-arranged scrap-book, needs less than half a dozen such books as the following, to make a show of learning and to astonish the world by his references and citations the six folio volumes of Petavius, on Dogmatic Theology, and his smaller work, Rationarium Temporum, a sort of compendium or schedule of universal history; and a volume printed, in the latter half of the seventeenth century, at Amsterdam, compiled by Limborch, consisting of an extensive collection of letters to and from the most eminent men of that and the preceding century, such as Arminius, Vossius, Episcopius, Grotius, and many others, embracing a vast variety of literary history, criticism, biography, theology, philosophy, and ecclesiastical matters I have before me the copy of this work, owned by that prodigy of learning, Dr.
Yielding to the suggestion, Casanova handed Lorenzo a copy of Peteau's "Rationarium," and received next morning, in exchange, the first volume of Wolf. Within he found a sheet bearing in six verses a paraphrase of Seneca's epigram, "Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius."
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