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ed pellicles, incessantly issuing from the CO*loured body, and tincturing whatever thfall upon with their own die (/). Such tenuthconjirnilesque formarum effigiœ cannot be ob-served singly, he fays; but by their const^flux a number of them may, especially fro 1 * 1a fpeculum{u ); but that upon wood, stofl e »Vse. the spectres are shivered and broken if)'Hitherto this is not much amiss; at le^there is fancy and poetical imagination inonly he seems to be under some difficultwhen he would prove that there are thin siit-faces thrown off by bodies, because graf 5 '

(t) Verum de summis Ipsum quoque sœpe color em,

Ver. t

(u) Bunt igitur tenues formarum confmilefqueEffigiœ, smgillatim quas cernere nemoCum posit: tamen affiiduo crebroque repulfiuRejeflœ, reddunt fpeculorum ex œquore vifium’," 0 ^Nee ratione alia fiervari posse videnturTantopere , ut smiles reddantur quoique figures-

Ver.

(v) ■ Sed in afipera fiaxa,

Ant in tnateriem ut ligni pervenit, ibi jamBcinditur, ut nullum Jimulacrum reddere pojfit-At cum, fiplendida ques constant , oppojia fuerurtiDenfiaque ; ut in primis speculum ’Jt, nihil o cC1horum. V er ’

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