. The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat . without being puzzled with the Vanity of Opinions,confirm themfelves in the moft juft of thofe which theyhave made Choice, and caufe all Oppojitions to contributeto the Glory of Truth. To know much, we ought notto value nor confult our felves j Self-Love is an Enemyto Labour and Pain, and Opinion to Truth : We ought tofufpect all Things which we either advance of our felves,or that we are Judges of. Not that we mould fubmit ourfelves to all forts of Judgments more re
. The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat . without being puzzled with the Vanity of Opinions,confirm themfelves in the moft juft of thofe which theyhave made Choice, and caufe all Oppojitions to contributeto the Glory of Truth. To know much, we ought notto value nor confult our felves j Self-Love is an Enemyto Labour and Pain, and Opinion to Truth : We ought tofufpect all Things which we either advance of our felves,or that we are Judges of. Not that we mould fubmit ourfelves to all forts of Judgments more readily than to ourown, but our own ought always to make us tremble whenit is not directly conformable to the Antients, and tothofe Moderns that are indued with ftrong and powerfulRcafins. Wherefore it is obfervd, that your great IVits,that afpire to the Knowledge of the moft abftrufe Things,confult all Things, continually informing themfelves, andapprove not much their own Coticeptions. To what De-gree and Pitch foever we have by our Induflry advanedour Learning,, cither as to Generals or Particulars, or through /. Voiy loc Haines Upibauc, flW, An Epilogue written by Mr. Brown. 313 through the Sublimity of our Geniuss, we mould feem tohave out-liript Common Knowledge; yet, after all, thiswould but affure us how vail and immeafurable a Quan-tity of Knowledge lay out oi Sight, as well as out of ourReach. A real Humility is the mod infallible Argumentof a Mans being a Knowing Man. We ought to know all Things, the better to know,and lefs to value our felves, and with a continual Appli-cation inftruft our felves in the Knowledge of God, inwhom alone is the true Knowledge of all Tilings, and theFulnefs of Eternal Wfdom. The Epilogue written by Mr. Brown,and [poke by Jo. Haines, in the Habit ofan Horfe-Ojficer, mounted on an Afs. YO U have feen (before now) fmce this Shape-jbewingAge,Mire Affes than mine, on a Beau-crowded Stage,Wherefore by tb Example of famd Dogget, my Brother^To fhe
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