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Product description This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1760 Excerpt:...Afris. 95 ORDO. fi quis edit cum lumbis. Turn vidimus &. causes & naturas earum: quern-nos ttlti Jk merulas adufio peelore por.i & palumbes fine fugimus ut gujlaremus nihil omnino j velut dune; suaves res, Js dominus non tsarraret Canidia ajjlajj'tt illis ptjor serpentibus sffrii. NOTES. 92. Suaves rei.l Here Fundanius inti-1 ness of the different Dirties, was more inmates, that Nafidienus's Absurdity in pre-suppoitable, than the sordid Entertainment tending to point out the Quality and Good-itself. 94 ® ® ® ® @® @@® @® ®t® @® ® QU INTI HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLARUM. LIBER PRIMUS. Epistola I. Horace discovers the fame fine Taste, as a Philosopher, that he does at a Poet. Of all the Parts of Philosophy, Morality inas his ch'-ef Study; because e-very other Part, comparatively speaking, is but an idle Speculation, and fruitless Curiosity;-whereas the great Business of Mtrality is to better the Mind, and make Men happy. Virtue keeps always a Mean betnuixt the opposite Vices that lie in Extremes, avdfc-w are capable of keeping it. Horace finding that the Philosophers themselves deviated from this Mean to either Extream, collected from each what ivas valuable, luith out attaching himself to any particular Sell. This wife and judicious Choice plainly appears in this Epistle, in which he excujus himself to Mæcenas (tuba chide d him for having suspendedhis anting of Lyric Poems) and tills him that he ele/lined the Remainder of his 'lime for forming hit Mcrals. Among the many Impediments to Man's haipinefs, he chiefly uttackl than if one should eat them with the Loins; then we saw roasted Blackbirds also served up, and Ring-Doves without the Rump: Delicious Bits enough, had not the Master explained...