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Earlier in his career he expresses in language less definite, but still sufficiently clear, his ideas as to another world: "An vero tam parvi animi videamur esse omnes, qui in republica, atque in his vitæ periculis laboribusque versamur, ut, quum, usque ad extremum spatium, nullum tranquillum atque otiosum spiritum duxerimus, vobiscum simul moritura omnia arbitremur?"
40 De multis regionibus Imperio Tartariae subiectis. 41 De magnificentia Imperatoris Indiae. 42 De frequentia Palatij, et comitatu Imperatoris praesbiteri Ioannis. 43 De quisbusdam miris per Regiones Imperij Indiae. 44 De loco et dispositione Vallis infaustae. 45 De quibusdam alijs admirandis, per Indorum insulas. 46 De periculis et tormentis in valle infausta.
B.G. 6, 13: disciplina in Britannia reperta atque inde in Galliam translata esse existimatur; and he adds, that those who wished to gain a more perfect knowledge of the Druidical system still went from Gaul to Britain to learn. His. Ang. Sax., B. 1, chap. 5. Persuasione. See the same use of the word, His. 5, 5: eademque de infernis persuasio. In periculis. Ferociae.
And these maxims are warranted by philosophy, divine and human; by human wisdom, because he who hopes little will attempt little fear is "a betrayal of the succours which reason offereth," and in difficult times, pericula magna non nisi periculis depelli solent; by religion, because the ways of providence are not so changed under the dispensation of Grace from what they were under the old law but that he who means well, and acts well, and is not wanting to himself, may rightfully look for a blessing upon the course which he pursues.
Nam clementia, justitia, benignitas, fides, fortitudo in periculis communibus, jucunda est auditu in laudationibus. Omnes enim hae virtutes non tam ipsis, qui eas in se habent, quam generi hominum fructuosae putantur.
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