A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society.

John Dunton

Date:: 1710

Credit: A supplement to the Athenian oracle : being a collection of the remaining questions and answers in the old Athenian mercuries intermixt with many cases in divinity, history, philosophy, mathematicks, love, poetry, never before publish'd. To which is prefix'd the history of the Athenian Society, and an essay upon learning / [by J. Dunton?] By a member of the Athenian Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$will but thems; we frame,our, felyes Fa Geflures ., and’ “Cients feigned yaith to be the moftancient of all the Gods, ‘intimating thar Love hath .no other, Principle. or, Origin but’ Love. it “‘lelirn., And they who affign’d \ him, a Companion ann they fyl’d Unteros, fig- nif'd Hea that. Friendfhip. cannot lait unlefs it. be mutual. ' : Friendihip, mutt. be di. finguith’d from. Love, For} Love isa Paflion of the Con- €upifcible Appetite , ariling trom. the. imsgination of a fenfible good, and is found e even m Brute Beafts, Ahip is one of ‘the moft excc lent: Manta or rather ihe, be tof ing onde éftal ma it is, yery, durable, inalmuch,as its canfel], and foundation, Vi irtue, alway s femains, and may be exercis'd. Therefore | Seneca pronounces,: the Fiiendthip which}, Kiiows an end was never thes Some Friendfhips there are fin deed the moft ) whofe founda-_ tion 4s Profit and Pleature, butt Imperfect! Whience it is that Old Menand| Young x are ordinarily | accounte HMicapable” of wue Friendfhip: the. former, becaufe they foarte: regard: any thing befides, Pro. fic;, and, the latter,. becaule .| their minds are. more fet upor | what is Pleafant and Agreeable, | than upon what is -Honett. and ‘| Virtuous, Nor.is.it ever, sue n| amongtt wicked, Pertons, .F another as much. as. himfelé: And although the affection we ‘bear to our felves be not true Friendfhip, becaufe: this, mutt always have reference to. an0- ‘ther, yet it, is, the mott cer~ tain, yea the meafure of. per- fect Friendfhip ; ; and God hath Appginted. the as the tule ots oer love.to. our, , Neighbo how.can_he be. paerneey Friend who. doth not Love. himtelf.: 2 How. can, he. agree with; an ther who. accords, not | with himfelf. 2. and, how. will, he > good to anothers who doth, none 0, himlelf? for.a vicious Man is, his own. chiefeit, ‘whillt, he purtues, thi di {imaginary good inftead of the ptyue 5 VICE, inftead of , Yirthe, 5 {the fhadow, for, the bodys . | and many times, he ‘Becomes , his own Murderer by intemperance { and, ‘Other. vices, He hath ale ‘ways a civil war, within him- felf’; his Realon: jis., ngvet. at peace with his ppstite: 5 ; what one. defires,, “the ot Fejed ie Conlequently, he “hath, neyer any inward joy, . but. he is sreatly ‘difpleas’d. with eing alone, . and for that, reaton al- ways. feeks the. company. of thofe like. himfelf,, >, 10, divert shis, fad Thoughts. , 3 4. Lhere is. “pothing compa- | pate to. Friendth ip, Ry teinee the {alr amd feafoning of ee mane$

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