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is truth of one kind at least discovered, ever/way inconsistent with his principle.

Mr. Hobbes thought on this head, Igiven a pregnant instance of above,contradictory notions these men had ofappearance did not hinder them from c °ffefsing, and allowing, the circumstances of jt 'History is full of this, which our ownperience shews, is no way impossible. Sfwrote two and twenty books of commentsries of his own actions; these he infersto Lucullus, whom he left tutor to his of ■>son, pasting by Pompey , and all the ot^Men of power in the commonwealth: ^in these commentaries he advises Luculwlook upon nothing so firm and certainechoing-ov x) PAcuov] as what he was f 0 ^ 6warned of in dreams (n). Now if we conn®all the circumstances, this will appear '' 1Cremarkable. Sylla’s character, whateV esmight be in other respects, was far st .lightness and vanity. And Lucullus calst * yadvice to mind, on a very signal insta slCe ^a dream, which I have already mentio^’whereby the city of Sinope, and all its i°

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(n) See Lucullus’s life in Plutarch, as also S)’P a s ’it is written in both.