Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . o men vary from their firfiVOLIII. P 106 The E P I S T L E, &c. Jiock. The mture of that is often fetained in poflerity hutfor a timej and then they ijuhofe anceflors were raifedfor aciive or fiirringfpirits, degenerate (as virtues often do into the vices that would dijfemble them) into wildnefs and levity ; as his examples are in the pofierity of Alci- biades and the elder Dionyfms ; and the other kind into lazy dulnefs^ m the defcen
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . o men vary from their firfiVOLIII. P 106 The E P I S T L E, &c. Jiock. The mture of that is often fetained in poflerity hutfor a timej and then they ijuhofe anceflors were raifedfor aciive or fiirringfpirits, degenerate (as virtues often do into the vices that would dijfemble them) into wildnefs and levity ; as his examples are in the pofierity of Alci- biades and the elder Dionyfms ; and the other kind into lazy dulnefs^ m the defcendants of Cimon, Pericles, and Socrates. j4nd for the mathematicks too ; the working hy geometrical proportion, hetween merit and advancementj you know is ever to he exercifed in that di- fiributive jufiice which creates fuch dignities and titles as are repre- fented here. Thus, fome parts of your own fiudies^ may perhaps be fometimes pleafed with it. But in earnefi; as it comes from me, I know it is acceptable to you. And if it have the fate of a long life^ it wiU return me a large retribution by tranfmitting the memory of our friendjhip to T H E lOI T H E
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