Gassendi, Pierre, De proportione qua gravia decidentia accelerantur, 1646

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              propoſui tibi candidè quas ſubdubitandi rationes ha­
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              berem. </s>
              <s id="s.001702">Vnde non mirari, quod ais, non poſſum,
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              fuiſſe
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              te deformem, atque abſurdum à me effictum:
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              quippe in eo
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              ſemper incubui vt de re dicens quod |opinarer, de te
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              reuerenter ſentirem. </s>
              <s id="s.001703">Sed nimirùm ex eo, quòd ipſe
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              cauſſam tuam non aliam eſſe, quàm veritatis exiſtimes,
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              videris id, quod de re dixi, ita accepiſſe de te, vt ex eo,
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              quod poſſit opinio deformis, atque abſurda apparere,
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              ipſemet deformis, & abſurdus appareas; ac illa attingi
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              non debeat, ne ipſe quoque attingaris. </s>
              <s id="s.001704">Quanquam
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              &, quæſo, apud quoſnam effingere te, qualem putas,
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              volui? </s>
              <s id="s.001705">Videlicet apud te ſolùm, ad quem res eſt pri­
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              uatim miſſa, & per quem ſtetit, vt aut quaſcumque
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              velles lituras duceres: aut quicquid id eſſet, ſupprimi
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              iuberes. </s>
              <s id="s.001706">Cùm neutrum volueris, ſed potiùs rem
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              euulgandam cenſueris, confiſus, quod ais,
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              te hiſce Vin­
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              dicijs ignotam mihi, impugnatamque, & maiore iam luce
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              illuſtratam veritatem aperire:
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              ac mihi gratum fore ſperans,
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              quòd à me quæſitam, optatamque mihi ab errore iam vindi­
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              catam exhiberes:
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              non debui ſanè genium fraudare, &
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              reluctante conſcientia, mancipiique more aſſentari,
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              applauderéque, annuendo eſſe mihi apertam, exhibi­
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              tamque veritatem, quam nullam planè perſpicerem. </s>
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              Illud certè mihi perquàm gratum accidit, quòd accu­
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              ratiore experientia globorum decidentium momenta expen­
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              dens, nouam veritati lucem attuliſti: ſpem enim magnam in­
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              de feciſti, futurum breui, vt huius lucis beneficio quæſitam
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              hactenus veritatem certiùs inueniamus: quam ego ſemper
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              vbicumque inuentam pari plauſu excipiam, eadęmque ſua­
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              uitate amplexabor.
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