Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman.
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Person, David.
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London :: Printed by Richard Badger [and Thomas Cotes], for Thomas Alchorn, and are to be sold at his shop, in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the green-Dragon,
1635.
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Science -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Combat -- Early works to 1800.
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"Varieties: or, A surveigh of rare and excellent matters necessary and delectable for all sorts of persons. Wherein the principall heads of diverse sciences are illustrated, rare secrets of naturall things unfoulded, &c. Digested into five bookes, whose severall chapters with their contents are to be seene in the table after the epistle dedicatory. By David Person, of Loghlands in Scotland, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09500.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.
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OF
SLEEPE
AND
DREAMES.
Sect. 1.
THat nothing can subsist without sleepe or rest; exem∣plified
in the death of Perseus King of Macedon:
The primary and secondary causes of sleepe: that a
sound co••science is a great motive to sound sleepe, proved
in the example of Thirois and his two Sonnes. 245
Sect. 2.
Examples of Kings and great Commanders, that upon
the thoughtfulnesse of some great exploit or encounter,
have beene extraordinarily surprized with unusuall
sleepe; and the reasons thereof agitated. 248
Sect. 3.
Alexander the great his sound sleeping, when he should
have encountred Darius in battell, here excused. Cato's
sleeping before his death, whereupon is inferred a dis∣course
against selfe-murther. 249
Sect. 4.
Of Dreames both Naturall, Accidentall, Divine, and
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Sect. 5.
The Emperour Severus his dreame of Pertinax; which
he caused to be molded in Brasse: An admirable dreame
of the Emperour Henry the fifth; Cicero's of Octa∣vianus.
That beasts dreame, but hard labouring men
seldome, and the reason thereof, &c. 254
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