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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- 1635.
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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 May 3, 2024.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, IOHN, Earle of Traquair, Lord Linton and Caberston; his MAIESTIES Treasurer Depute of Scotland, and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privie-Councell there.
Right honorable,
EXamples of Histories and daily experience teach us, that as Piety and Iustice are the pillars of a State, and the Countrey happy (as none more than ours) whose King is endued with them, seeing people commonly follow their example; so most fortunate is the Land, where a most wise King substitutes such officers of State, as whose piety, justice, charity, and other vertues, may be a comfort, rule, and example to the people, over whom God and their King hath placed them: That this reflecteth upon you my Lord, none of our Nation is so de∣stitute of understanding as to question; upon which assu∣rance
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I have adventured this dedication to your Lordship, that where these eminent vertues doe so cleerely shine there can be no clouded mystinesse cast betwixt a candide and auspicious acceptance, and this small tender of my du∣ty to honourable vertue, and entire affection to your Ho∣nour: which in your younger yeeres at Paris (where I be∣gan this work) I did vow unto your then blooming merits; and now performe, that it may remaine to after Ages, as an everduring token of the love, favour, duty, honour, and respect, that was alwayes carried to the most illustrious name of Stewart in generall, and to You my Lord in par∣ticular, as a Noble branch of the Honorable Stock of Lennox, By
Your Lordships faithfull and affectioned servant, David Person.