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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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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⟩it shall be applied unto particulars it must needs break: for the actions of the will is buying, selling, travailing, lying, heaping up wealth, murdering, spreading of false rumours, offering of discourtesies, hating of kinsfolks, and such like, which our heavengazers foretell, have no coherent with the first qualities, heat, cold, moisture, dryness: neither can they any way proceed from them, and therefore the stars cannot be causes of them, for they work only by these qualities.
4. This long chayne by whiche they lincke the will of man to the starres, if ⟨image 44⟩it shalbe applyed vnto particulars it must needes breake: for the actions of the will is buying, selling, trauailyng, lying, heaping vp wealth, murdering, spreading of false rumours, offering of discourtesies, hatyng of kinsfolkes, and such like, whiche our heauengazers foretell, haue no coherēte with the first qualities, heate, cold, moisture, drynesse: neither can they any waye proceede from them, and therfore the starres cannot be causes of them, for they worke onely by these qualittes.