HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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"live long and pleafe your mailers, and fpare my now
"decayed fides." From all which the point is as
plain, to ufe the words of Plautus-
Quanz Solis radii ohm, quam fudum ell, folent.
Clear as the noonday-fun's tranfpiercing rays.
And that this is no new or modern opinion, but
founded on the unanimous confent of all antiquity, is
evident from the teftimony of the Scripture, wherein
the loins, and its adjacent parts, and the reins, are faid
to contribute to the work of generation. Now , a
general judgment or opinion of the learned, as your
civilians, my friend Caffius, exprefs themfelves, cannot
be totally falfe. And Ariflotle, in his Topicks, fays-
" Such things are probable, as appears fo to all, or
"molt, or, at leaft, to the wife, and them either all, or
"molt, or such Whofe wifdom is moil acknowleged or
"experienced, and who have got fame and reputation,
"on that account."
In the next place, it is worth our while to enquire
further into the reafons upon which this opinion is
founded ; for i3y this means we snail, at the same
tim;