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

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              dicebam, nugas, vt quidpiam germanum, ac indu­
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              bium; at ſimpliciùs ago, quàm vt rideam; quippe me
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              potiùs miſeret natiuæ imbecillitatis, cùm nihil ha­
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              beam præclarius, quo meam, aut alterius ſciendi auidi­
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              tatem paſcam. </s>
              <s id="s.001902">Obiicis,
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              non eſſe, cur magnetieam ferri
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              vulgò dictam attractionem in exemplum adducam; quòd
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              Magnes, & ſerrum non ſictis illis meis hurpagonibus, aut
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              inuiſibilibus catenis, quaſi vi adducta; ſed vtrumque ſponte
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              naturæ incitata in mutuos amplexus accurrant.
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              <s id="s.001903"> Id verò
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              ſanè per-eleganter; ſed quid mihi facias, qui ſim ita
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              hebes, vt vim vocibus ſubiectam non capiam. </s>
              <s id="s.001904">Dicis
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              vtrumque accurrere in mutuos amplexus:
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              ſed hoc totum
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              effectus eſt, de cuius cauſſa ambigitur. </s>
              <s id="s.001905">Cauſſam ergo
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              interiicis,
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              quia ſponte naturæ incitantur.
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              <s id="s.001906"> At cùm hæc vi­
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              deatur eſſe generalis, inartiſicialiſque Reſponſio, qua
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              ad omnia vtimur, quorum cauſſas ignoramus; non vi­
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              deo profectò, quò tu, Vir acutiſſimus, collincees. </s>
              <s id="s.001907">Quippe
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              velle te dicere nihil aliud, quàm quod eſt vulgò in ore
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              omnium,
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              quia talis est rei natura; quia id ſponte naturæ
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              fit; quia hoc natura ipſa ſcit,
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              cæteraque huiuſmodi; mihi
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              in animum non induco. </s>
              <s id="s.001908">Hæc certè eſt cauſſa, cur
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              dixerim antè valere iubendam omnem Philoſophiam,
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              ac omnem præſertim cauſſarum
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              inueſtigan­
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              darum deponendam curam; ſi huiuſcemodi Reſponſio
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              videatur poſſe ſufficere. </s>
              <s id="s.001909">Ac eſt quidem eò denique, vt
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              etiam dixi, perueniendum: ſed ſunt interim tamen va­
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              rij gradus cauſſarum inſtrum entariarum, de quibus
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              cùm dicere non liceat quemadmodum à natura, vt à
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              princip
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              i cauſſa vſurpentur; aut cur, quomodove ad­
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              natæ, addictæque ipſi naturæ; licet tamen requirere </s>
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