The Circe / of Signior Giovanni Battista Gelli of the Academy of Florence. Consisting of ten dialogues between [Ulysses and several] men transform'd into beasts: giving a lively representation of the various passions, and [the] many infelicities of humane life. Done out of Italian, by Mr. Tho. Brown.

  • Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 1498-1563. Circe. English
Date:
1702
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Credit: The Circe / of Signior Giovanni Battista Gelli of the Academy of Florence. Consisting of ten dialogues between [Ulysses and several] men transform'd into beasts: giving a lively representation of the various passions, and [the] many infelicities of humane life. Done out of Italian, by Mr. Tho. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parating, or abftrading things from mat¬ ter, and confidering their proper eflence, and dividing it into its feveral parts, or compofing their Predicates, Sublfantials, and Accidentals, with their Subjeéìs, comes to have a moft certain knowledge of their Nature. Elephant. But with Submiffion, what perfedt knowledge can it have for example of Man, if it considers him diverted of all matter, bccaufe there is no man but confifts of Fieli] and Bones. Ulyjfes. The matter of things may be reduced under two Heads : One of which is called common, the other particular. The common matter of Man is the Flelh, the Bones, the Sinews, and other parts • and the particular matter is this numerical Flejfh, and Bones, and Sinews : Now this parti¬ cular matter being perpetually fubjedi to Change, always varies, and is in a con- ftant Flux 3 and without this the under- ftanding confiders it, but yet not without the Flelh and Bones. So then if you con- fider a Man as a rational Creature confiding of Bones, Flerti, and Mortal, I mean uni- verfally, and without defcending to parti¬ cular matter, in this refpedi he may pro¬ perly
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