The life of Asclepiades, the celebrated founder of the Asclepiadic sect in phisic ... / From the Italian.

  • Cocchi, Antonio, 1695-1758.
Date:
1762
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Credit: The life of Asclepiades, the celebrated founder of the Asclepiadic sect in phisic ... / From the Italian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deeped concealed ; fuch an underftanding, in fhort, implies that magnanimous and univerfal benevolence, which fome few, more than com¬ monly elevated fpirits, difplay in the publifhing their fcienti'fic obfervations frankly and liberally even to the vulgar, which for the mod part, if it lidens at all to them, repays them with ingra¬ titude and malignancy. That fuch was the underdanding of Afclepi- ades, lively in the images of f milies and exam¬ ples, which gave clearnefs and brilliancy to his eloquence; that he was at the fame time judi¬ cious, profound, and a lover of truth, in his reafonings, fo far as comported with the difco- veries of his times, can never be doubted by whoever will candidly examine the remains of his works, clear of the reflexions of thofe who quote them. That he fliould have applied to his dudies from his earlied youth, in his own country, be¬ fore he pa fled over from Afia to Europe, is very credible from his having condantly poflefled thofe faculties, which are rarely, if ever obferved in thofe, who betake themfelves late to their learn¬ ing. Such faculties are principally, a dile cor¬ rect, clear and elegant ; a fagacious argumenta¬ tion, inventive and exadt, and a paffionate fen- fibility for the truths of nature ; for the ac- quifition