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Sacred Texts Age of Reason
XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations Index
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Oh! speculators on perpetual motion how many vain projects of the like character you have created! Go and be the companions of the searchers for gold. 644
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301:644 : Another short passage in MS. I, referring also to speculators, is given by LIBRI (Hist, des Sciences math. III, 228): Sicche voi speculatori non vi fidate delli autori che anno sol col immaginatione voluto farsi interpreti tra la natura e l'omo, ma sol di quelli che non coi cienni della natura, ma cogli effetti delle sue esperienze anno esercitati i loro ingegni.
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