De Caroli Timothei Zumptii, Vita et Studiis: Accedunt Caroli Timothei Orationes Latinae Sex (Classic Reprint)

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Antiquissimus est et omnium tempomm ac populorum con suetudine receptus mos, ut, si quis vir magnus et clams ob ierit, laudes eius celebrentur et quibus eas virtutibus memerit examinetur: qui nisi in ipsa natura societatisque nostrae qua dam necessitate esset positus, non sic accidere videremus, ut neque ulla sit gens paulo ad humanitatem provectior, apud quam non laudationum funebrium aliquod reperiatur genus, et qui populi omni doctrina ac litteris floruerunt, ab hoc potis simum genere ad alia deinceps gradum fecerint. Neque enim eorum causa, qui vita defimcti indicia nostra nihil curant, fa cimfis, ut eorum virtutis meminerimus, neque ut gratiam quan dam iis referamus, ea quae gesserunt recordamur, quae ipsa gratia referenda si quaereretur, magis ad nos quam ad illos pertineret, sed ut eorum laude intuenda atque imitanda ad rem gerendam ipsi excitemur. Qua maxime re nititur omnis hominum ad id, quod bonum verumque est, progressio: siqui dem parum valet unius hominis ingenium, quod brevi vitae spatio coartatum vix patitur quemque paululum procedere, at omnium ooniuncta et per multas aetates quasi propagata inge nia nihil prope est in rebus humanis quod adipisci nequeant. Quare cum omnium, quotquot et in republica et in litteris laudem invenerunt, diligenter retinenda sit memoria, tum hand scio an nulli id hominum generi magis sit faciendum, quam his qui appellantur philologi. Nam poetam quidem satis bo 1.

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