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Erro, in a work published at Madrid, took the ground that Basque was the language spoken in the Garden of Eden; but in 1580 Goropius published his celebrated work at Antwerp, in which he put the whole matter at rest by showing, beyond all doubt, that the language spoken in Paradise was neither more nor less than plain Holland Dutch.
'CHAP. LXXII. Concerning snakes. 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island . At dinner we talked of another mode in the newspapers of giving modern characters in sentences from the classicks, and of the passage 'Pareus deorum cultor, et infrequens, Insanientis dum sapientiæ Consultus erro, nunc retrorsùm Vela dare, atque iterare cursus Cogor relictos :
No. 74. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1753 Insansientis dum sapientiae Consultus erro. HOR. Lib. i. Od. xxxiv. 2. I missed my end, and lost my way By crack-brain'd wisdom led astray.
Quod si in hoc erro, qui animos hominum immortalis esse credam, libenter erro nec mihi hunc errorem, quo delector, dum vivo, extorqueri volo; sin mortuus, ut quidam minuti philosophi censent, nihil sentiam, non vereor ne hunc errorem meum philosophi mortui irrideant. Quod si non sumus immortales futuri, tamen exstingui homini suo tempore optabile est.
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