The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand.

  • Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655
Date:
1657
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Credit: The mirrour of true nobility & gentility. Being the life of the renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius Lord of Peiresk ... / Englished by W. Rand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are imal] matcers in chemfelves, buc worthy con- pleafure co fee trees bearing fair buds and blol- toms, Old men, Iam fure, have admired thefe things and coldthemtome, avouching that he never was taken wich, nor never relifhed any childifh thing. When he was feven yeers old, and was educa- ted with his brother at Brinonia,where the Court of Subfidies and Accounts were then kept, be- caufe the peftilence was at Aix, he defired that he Jedge, which had the repute to flonrifh in the (tu- dies of learning. Norisic aching to be pat over in filence, how he perfwaded his father, to com- he might overíee his young ftudies: nor mult it be forgotten, how he was from this time for- and how his brother did reverence him after from thence to Aix, where their uncle then aboce. Afterwards when the civil wars grew hot upon ro relate, that he was much indebted to Aatenins Colombatius, and Andreas Valladerius ; whom he heard, they being the chief Profeffors of Hume nity. 1592: 1587. 1588. 1589. 1590.