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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$‘\ r SP Ria Yat he aa (oe: : , 3 aiid Sate AN y oe = Ms themfelves, ‘by, natural incli- |things: as:theyy ought tobe? nation, to the pleafure of ano+|Bur ’tis*otherwile if we cons ther... Moreover, fome Virtues | fider things'as they aye: Ma- are fo, heroical and eminent |ny times: the Appetite ovet> that. they... win hearts, as,it | mafters. Reafon ;: ulually Fools were, by violence,'and com: ]and Ignorants are the ftrongett. ftrain the , mott, refractory; and | Wherefoie if’ there be found ambitious.to, confels that. they |any oné amongit: Men ‘that ought .to be ,obey’d..,, By this | differs as. much from others as ' the Soul from the Body, Man from: Beait; Reafon from ‘the Appetite, the Male from the Female; he ought to command. For, according to Aviftotle} ep very Man who commands mu& be of.:a different Nature from him who obeys, And as the Shepherd is of | ‘another \iand more’ excelent : Nature than his Flock,/ fo he that commands over Men ought tobe a Hero. Quelt. Which ‘is. hardeft,) to ety or to keep an Estate, Knows : cone impatient .. of , all command, Have been brought to lay down. their Arms. But.we. fee fome Spirits, fo free, that nothing ‘ean reduce them. to obedience, “Neither. promiles, nor, threat- nings. They have fg high.and extraordinary a- genius, ;that hey will prefer poverty. and muiery, yea beggary.and tor- medits, before obedience ; ;and never, floop,1o. the pleafure and wall of any, other, altho’ they be burt little beftiended by For. tune, or, Nature. , Whence . is this ?, Why, fometimes. from greatnefs of Spirit, and often., times, from a dilorderlinefs of Mind which breaks forth, and is not capable of reitraint. _ &.da the whole , Univerfe. he more Noble Commands-the lefs, the more. potent. quality ys ominates over the. .reft : n Animals the Soul commands the Body, .as the. Mailer his Servant; makés it move and attas ig plecdes 5 add Man exeiciles. fovereignty . over Beaits,. Amongit Men, Rea- fon commands the Apetite ; in Oeconomy, the Male, as the Spee Revie commands. the #emale 3 and, generally, the “Wiley Heamed, and, Virtuous, SHEP So ibave command, ovat ihe Foolith, | Ignorant, . and :Wucious.. This, is {peaking of bd bh Rew “a J ws ; ig 7) PN et \ & } -sd \ ledge, oy the likes? . 41s: | | Anfw.o As the) harderi'a weight is to be lifted up, “tis the ‘harder tobe held up ; fo the more labour there tis in acquiring,the more there is alle in prelerving the thing acquir’d. - Hence thole. who» havenun- — dergone hard toyl to geriaty eftate, are more bufied in keep- ing it, than they who _ receive one from another without pains. On, which account it was, that Aroftotle faith Benefaétors love thole they do. good tos better than are below’d. by them, bée- caule “us more pains to oblige * than to be oblig’d 5 and Wo- inen love and); preterve their Children fo tenderly.and dear. ly, becaufe\\ of the pain: they undergo in bringing them forth. Yet becaule.this Sex is defign’d to look after the: goods, of : the Family, aad Men ito/procuye : : thei j$

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