The Sacred theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consumation of all things (1719)
Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 · London : Printed for John Hooke · leaf 12
mantinumFundit cacumen, dum per imasSaxa fluunt refoluta valles. Jamque D. Tho. Burnettum. y Jamque alta coeli moenia corruunt,Et veftra tandem pagina (proh nefas!)BuRNETTE, veftra augebit ignes,Heu focio peritura mundo.Mox ^qua tellus, mox fubitus virorUbique rident: En te^etem Globum IEn l^ta… … VI A N O D E To the Learned Dr. Thomas Burnet, AUTHOR of The Sacred Theory of the E A R T H. I. No common Height the Mufe mufi;foar.That wou d thy Fame in Numbers try sNor dare in humble Verfe adore.But rife with Thee above the Sky:You ask a bold and lofty ftrain,/Vnd what we meanly ling, difdain;…
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