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Four great liars, striving who shall win the silver whetstone Also, a resolution to…Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to…
Four great liars, striving who shall win the silver whetstone Also, a resolution to the country-man, proving is utterly unlawful to buy or use our yearly prognostications. Written by W.P.Foure great lyers, striuing who shall win the siluer whetstone Also, a resolution to the countri-man, prouing is vtterly vnlawfull to buye or vse our yeerly prognostications. Written by W.P.
London: printed by Robert Walde-grave, 1585London: printed by Robert Walde-graue, 1585
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2. The stars work upon the Elements earth, water, air, by making heat, cold, moisture, dryness. The elements, how work they on mens bodies? They will also say by making heat, cold, moisture, dryness: which is most untrue: for the hotter and dryer the Elements be, the colder and moister by nature are mens bodies. According to that saying of Empedocles: Nature placed a hot body in a cold country, and a cold body in a hot country.
2. The starres worke vpon the Elementes earth, water, ayre, by makyng heate, cold, moisture, drines. The elementes, how worke they on mens bodies? They will also say by making heate, cold, moysture, dryenesse: which is most vntrue: for the whotter and dryer the Elementes be, the colder and moyster by nature are mens bodies. Accordyng to that saying of Empedocles: Nature placed a whote body in a cold countrey, and a cold body in a whote countrey.
3. The Philosophers say that all causes are either per se or per accidens. Now the heavens being causes of the alteration of the senses per accidens, they must not be causes of the inclination of the will, either per se or per accidens, but per accidentis, accidens, which is most ridiculous.
3. The Philosophers say that all causes are either per se or per accidens. Now the heauens being causes of the alteration of the senses per accidens, they must not bee causes of the inclination of the will, either per se or per accidens, but per accidentis, accidens, whiche is most ridiculous.
4. This long chain by which they link the will of man to the stars, if ⟨image 44⟩