Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    r ***** dcfircd by Wifemen, AW I,. in tn.’sjf. 1° ft tlie torceof which is fuch, that it iharpens the IJn ’ demanding, and feparates Man from Man • wiv T When he has attained, he fees not onTy Secies of natmal Things, but likewife is carried with fwift \vmgs, and a purged Mind, into Heaven, and is fiheuwith the Knowledge of Divine Things. Af¬ terwards being mftruaed by the immortal Gods he reveals abftrufe and admirable Things to ignorant De^th PJ%°' m blsP^do> %s> ^is is called a “T r’,3 treeig and Separation of the Soul from the Body • And afterwards, Thofe chiefly and onlv defire to tree it and leparate it, who rightly philofo- ptnze; and therefore a Philofopher does not fear D^a.n, becaufe he is not a Lover of the Body. Such are celebrated by Ovid, Fa ft. i. / cn Fahces Antma, qtiibus hac cognofcere primum Inque Domus Super as fcandere Cura fuit; * CredMe eft, illas pariter Vitiifque Jecifmu, Altius humanis exeruiffe Caput Non Venus & Vinum fublimia PeEhra frent Qjftcmmve fori, militiave Labor ; Neelevis Ambitio, perfufdque Gloria fuco , A ^agnarumve Fames folUcitavit Opum : Adtncvsre Oculis diftantia Sidera noftris, /Etheraque Ingenio fuppofuere fuo. Sic petitur Caelum—. T^hrice happy thofe5 who make their chief 'Delight Do know thefe Dhings, and take this lofty Flight | We may believe fuch rais'd above the Sphere * Of trifiing Jokes and Vices reigning here. ir,° Wr’ nor Wine> no 'Soils of TVar, or Gown, Iheje Joaring Minds have fi) alien and cafl down;