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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    I4 The Life of Peireskius. Book.I. 1596, ting divers Letters to a workiman, and expoftu? lating the matter with him, becaufe hé Hád long fnce promifed to make him an Attrolabe, ‘but had been névligent in che performance of his promife. In that meanfeafon,he abated nothing in his ftüdies of Antiquity (upon which account” he was dearly affected by Petrus Royerus oné}. ofthe profeffors ) norin his fiudies of Humanitie} : ingenerall, in which-hewasasit were his’ Bro-] thers Ma(ter andIn(üruü&er. Butto do all this,he [| was fain to fit up Jateinthe night at his ftudy. Hence it was that partly by reafon of the natural] weakneffe of his Contütution, partly by his conti- ] 7 nuall labours and late watchines, he erncreated] ^... the weakneffe of his (tomach formerly contracted; | which made him ufe a powder which in his Let- ters to his Father, he called his Digeftive pow- der. Andbecaufe I have mentioned liis Letters; | Tren LOUMOr his Letters over and over againe in feverall pa- | ^ pers, which it has been my hap to view; by J which it is apparent that he nled no phrafes which |?! were luxuriaot or undigetled. For he evermore | * * expreffed what he intended with common words, §/#! yet not without that Elegancy and civilitie, with fU which in reflifying his good will, obfervance; and | 9 gratitude, in excufing , commending, congratu- I^ lating, and fuch like paffages ; he- was adini- [^ rable, For, toinftance, writing to his mother |! in Law upon occafion of certain T okens received from her, he chus exprefled himfelf, Felices videmur, 0 mater, quod beneficiis tnis cumulamuy : fedinfelices tamen. quando fic illit obrisimur,ut ar- M nofcenda impares fimus, That is, I° account my d felf 1 0 Law.