Exercitationes philologicæ tres prima, Infanticidium, poema credulam experimens matrem delirantibus astrologorum insomniis, & piâ quâdam crudelitate deceptam, prolem suam intersecisse : secunda, Spes extatica, sive sperantis animæ plausus, & ovatio : tertia, Philosophia vindicata, sive pauperis philosophi contra divitem superbe calumniantem defensio / authore Jo. Northleigh ...
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- Exercitationes philologicæ tres prima, Infanticidium, poema credulam experimens matrem delirantibus astrologorum insomniis, & piâ quâdam crudelitate deceptam, prolem suam intersecisse : secunda, Spes extatica, sive sperantis animæ plausus, & ovatio : tertia, Philosophia vindicata, sive pauperis philosophi contra divitem superbe calumniantem defensio / authore Jo. Northleigh ...
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- Northleigh, John, 1657-1705.
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- Oxonii :: Typis, L.L., prostant venales apud J. Crosley,
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"Exercitationes philologicæ tres prima, Infanticidium, poema credulam experimens matrem delirantibus astrologorum insomniis, & piâ quâdam crudelitate deceptam, prolem suam intersecisse : secunda, Spes extatica, sive sperantis animæ plausus, & ovatio : tertia, Philosophia vindicata, sive pauperis philosophi contra divitem superbe calumniantem defensio / authore Jo. Northleigh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52456.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.
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Praefatiuncula.
I Gnoscas (Candide Lector) suam exerci∣tationibus hisce tenuitatem, cum author ipse non solum & annis, & studiis, adhuc vix satis adoleverit; sed etiam cogitationes hasce volatiles, & levidenses, aliquot abhinc annis conscriberet; cerebri∣que sui Minerva praepropero nimis & imma∣turo partu laboraverit; ut si praecipitis puer∣perii foetus aliter quam rudis, incultus, & semiformatus esset, summo cum jure pro notho suspicaretur. Historia prima Bartholini de rebus Anatomicis rarioribus Poematis argu∣mentum obtulit, quod si ulterius, & vel ad fabulam historia protrahatur, usitata Poetarum licentia veniam impetrabit. Secundo, Speran∣tis extasin, quam brevius delineavit, quis juvenum non longius passus est, (Si quid â voluptate patimur;) & sic non tam animi
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affectum, quam ipsam animam in tabellâ deptinx∣it. Tertio, Vindicationem istam efflagita∣runt? imo potius provocaverunt Scepticorum quorundam Divitum, in artes, literas, & Philosophos, acerrime calumniant••m, ineptae vociferationes. Dentur enim illiterati tales homunciones, auro suo solum & indulgenti naturâ spectabiles, qui vel in ipso sapientum opprobrio, miserrimo illo, Nescire, Stultissime gloriantur, & caeca, superba quadam ignoran∣tia, illa damnant, quae non intelligunt.
Hoc modo lemmatum, & argumentorum origines tibi magis innotescunt, sed quae intus continentur minus placeant; at in Lectoris so∣latium promittit, ut haec (hujusce farinae) prima fuerunt conamina, sie & ultima futura; & saltem gratior aliquantulum erit nunc Musa loquax, cum in posterum perpetuo siluerit.