Copy 1, Volume 1

The Athenian oracle: being an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian Mercuries ... / By a member of the Athenian Society [S. Wesley].

  • The Athenian Society
Date:
1706
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Credit: The Athenian oracle: being an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian Mercuries ... / By a member of the Athenian Society [S. Wesley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TMB! ‘BOOKSELLER | TO THE READER. | Hlefe Sheets are an entire Collection of what was Valuable in the Athenian Mercuries. The Queftions were gathered with Care and Fudgment, and now make their fecond Apa pearance without Alteration or Abridgment. = = The Original Volumes, which once met with good ‘Acceptance from Men of Learning and Curiofity, are now out of Print;and ‘twas great Pity a Ptoje&t fo Unie | werfal and fo Informing, fhou'd Die, and never be Reo vivd; efpecially feeing the Common-wealth of Learn em woud be the greateft Sufferer in that Cafe. The ‘orld cannot expect that Twenty Volumes fhowd be comprifed in this narrow Compafs ; for tho the Pens of _ that Learned Society were now and then Luxuriant upon the Affairs of Love, and other Leffer Matters3 yet there’s a World of curious Enquiries in every Fa- culty and Science, which out of meer Nece(fity are left wntouched. And that thePublick mayn’t be impofed up» on with a Work half finifh'd, aThird Volume is ale veady in the Prefs, and will be Publifhed with all . pofible Difpatch. ; ee : THE. oe : rit