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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803. Excerpt: ... ges, of clearing their doubts, and enlightening their reason. When Jason, in Valerius Flaccus, would incline the young Prince Acastus to accompany him in the first essay of navigation, he disperses his apprehensions of danger,by representations of the new tracts of earth and heaven, which the expedition would spread before their eyes; and tells him with what grief he will hear, at heir return, of the countries which they shall have seen, and the toils which they have surmounted. O quantum terra, quantum cognoscerc coeli, Permissum est! pelagus quantos aperimus in usus! Nunc forsan grave reris opus: sed Iaeta recurret Cum ratis, et caram cum jam mihi reddet lolcon; Quis pudor heunostros tibitunc audire labores! Quam referam visas tua per suspiria gentes! Led by our stars, what tracts immense we trace! From seas remote, what funds of science raise! A pain to thought! but when th" heroic band Returns applauded to their native land, A life domestic you will then deplore, And sigh, while I describe the various shore. Edw. Cave. Acastus was soon prevailed upon by.his curiosity to set rocks and hardships at defiance, and commit his life to the winds; and the same motives have in all ages had the same effect upon those whom the desire of fame or wisdom has distinguished from the lower orders of mankind. If therefore it can be proved that distress is necessary to the attainment of knowledge, and that a happy situation hides from us so large a part of the field of meditation, the envy of many who repine at the sight of affluence and splendor will be much diminished; for such is the delight of mental superiority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss. It is certain, that however the rhetoric of Seneca ma...
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