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They are so used still by some Statesmen, with Sect, this Difference, that it is in favour of a FacJion VII. for the most part, and by some Under-Tooh that -»' -* they apply them. When Lycurgus was travel ling through Greece, viewing the Models of the several States, he found 'Thales in Crete, a ?*5- (g) ' Man addicted to Poetry, and a Law-giver. 86- 1*0 Strabo. " In the fame manner the Philosophers, as oidfh) " well as the Lawgivers, at first published their (i) " Opinions and their Sayings in Verse, as we Plutarch. ^ jF/h 5 r,
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Heaven  ■ Infused throughout, this universal Soul Revolves the Mass, and animates the Whole. Virgil. A Boar to Mother Earth they sacrific'd ; m (r; 172tf Sylvan God with Milk /£<ry plain appeas'd ; But Flowers and Wine, their better Genius claim'd, Mindful of transient Life.—-

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