The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray.

  • Ray, John, 1627-1705.
Date:
1692
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Credit: The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .. si 'The Epiflle T^edicatorj. thing incident to the worfer Part (the Body^) that is Pain* N[ow though I know not whether this Reafon be firm and cpnclufive, yet I am of ac¬ cord with him, that of all the Evils * f we are fenfible of in this World it is the foreft; the moft tefoliite Patience being baffled and proftrated by a fierce and lafting Paroxyfm of the (jout or Stone, or Colick, and com¬ pelled to yield to its fHriomlnfults^znd confefs irfelf vanquiihed,the Soul be¬ ing unable to divert,or to do anything elfe but pore upon the Pain. And therefore thofe Stoical Vaunts of their I ■ ^ - \yife Man’s being happy in Perillus^s Bull,Lutterly reje^ Siud exploders vain Rhodpmontades and Chimerical Fig^ ments, for that there never was fuch a wife Man among them, nor indeed S'' s ' ' could be: Yet do I not fay, that the Patience of a good Man can be fo far conquer’d /jy^the fiiarpeft and fevereft 1 orntems^ as to be compelled to deny Of