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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$that being Animalsofthe Sun,}feen in it, thers’ this Tiled and. more fufceprible of its im- } preffions by reafon of their aendernefs , they were more eafibly fenfible, and contequent- ly afforded more remarkable tokens, by their motions and particular, conftitution, of the various dilpofitions of the Sun, an reference to the feveral Af- pects of good and bad Planets, efpecially of Saturn their op-' pofite. Whence judging , by: ehe dulnefs and fadnets of the) Chickins, that the Sun was’ afflicted by a bad Alpe of Mars ox Saturt; they drew of confequence , that fince this SUininary, which ~ befides its univerfal power, was the Dif- pofer of their fortune with, Mars, was found ill difpos’d when they where projecting | flions. ) any defign, therefore they | Queft. Whar ave the Reafons could not have a good iflue of |Why Men love move to command at. Thus people prognofticate | than ubey 2° at @ great Famine or Mortality] Aa/w, There are various and’ when great flocks of yys andj different Reafons affigi’d. As Crows forfake the Woods;4 4. Man is one of the’ wéak- becaufethefe melancholy Birds | eft; but’ the’ moft ambitious‘ of bearing the Chara¢ters of Sa-| all Creatures. He accounts furs the Author of Famine | himfelf worthy to command, and Mortality, have a very | hot only’ over all that is below early perception of the bad dif-jhim, but alfo’ over all his’ e+ pofition of that Planet. {guals.° And did not fhame’ re- .§+ Thence alfo it is, that if] {train him, he would willingh a fly be found in an Oak-ap- es his own tuffrage for him- ple, *tis beliew’d that the year] telf, when the perton of gréat- eh{uing will be troubled with] eft fufficiericy were to be nomi - Wars, becau.e that Tiileét’ be-| mated: Hetice it isconceived tha¢ ing always in’ Motion,and{ wehave as manyEnemiesas Ser- troublefom, is attributed to] vants, if the Proverb’ be true. Mars, \f a Spider be foutid| For the Servant aceounting in the faid Excteftence’ ,] himfelf equally or more’ able tlien a Peftilence’ is fear’d’, : béecaufe this Inleét has’ the’ Chara@ters of malignang Sa- turn 5 if a‘ {mall worin: be Venus, plenty is prognofticated. Now, did’ we know all ‘the ine ternal or ‘external Characters of Animals, we might by their motion and difpofition’ obrain’ fome Knowlédg of ‘that of their Star, atid thence draw fomte conjeCtures of fururities. ‘But this cannot be done by the’ depottments of Men, becaule thefe are varied by a thoufand bufineffés , itnaginations and! troubles, and efpecially by their'free Willand Diffimula- ‘tions 5 ‘the latrer whereof puts them’ upon outward motiolis contrary to their internal, and the former carries them, by the lway of their wills, againit the courfe of caleftial impré= tute do’s him wrongin’ leaw~ ing him im that condition, and therefore: %$

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