Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.

  • William Stukeley
Date:
1763
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Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lucidus, Lidyat, Polan, Perkins, Wfe, Gregory, Jackfon. and many more, generally perfons of great learning. The Poets, it is certain, are great mailers oi nature: nnd their teftimony is not without conliderable weight, they plead ftrongly and univerfally, for the vernal crea¬ tion. thus Virgil Geor. II. after defcnbing the fpring, and its aptitude for generation of plants and animals, concludes, the world was made at that time of the year. Ver adeo frondi nemorum, ver utile Jy his. Phe Spring adorns the woods, renews the leaves. Phe womb of earth the genial feed receives. Then largely expatiating thereon, he concludes: In this foft feafon, let me dare to fing, ] Phe world was hatcht by heavens imperial king r In prime of all the year, and holy days of fpring. J Phen did the new creation firft appear, Nor other was the tenor of the year : When laughing heavens did the great birth attend, And eaftern winds their wintry breath fufpend. And fo he proceeds, in an agreable defcription. Ovid in his Fafi, in like purpofe, celebrated the month of April. . . , . , So the pervigilium Lefieris, with adniiiable redun¬ dancy of beauty. So Columella de horti cultu. Lucretius