Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    78 PREDICTIONS, &c. about fome bufinefs, he obtained that for which he came, and received farther privately from the God, this oracle concerning himfelf. Thee Hercules doth Phoebus name, For thou fhalt gain immortal fame. | The Peripateticks affert, that the foul in the day-time is inflaved and involved in the body, fo that fhe cannot behold truth; but in the night, being freed from this fervitude, and gathered together, as it were, in around about the parts that are in the breatt, fhe is- more prophetick, whence proceed dreams. Socrates faid of his demon to Theages Demodocus, and many others, that he many _times perceived a voice warning him by divine inftinét, which, faith he, when it comes, fig- nifieth a diffuafion from that which I am going to do, but never perfuades to do any thing. _ And when any of my friends, (faith he) im- part their bufinefs to me, if this voice hap- pens, it diffuades alfo, giving me the hke counfel: whereupon, I dehort him who ad- vifeth with me, and fuffer him not to proceed in
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