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prudentia, æquitas, religio quoque fiderum, ſoliſque ac lunæ veneratio."

"If ſome of the more ſagacious brutes lived long enough, and ſufficient pains were taken with them, who knows to what perfection they might be brought?"

"The horſe in this country is not a political animal, but in the deſerts of Tartary and Siberia he is political, for being there hunted by the Tartars, as hares and deer are in this country, they for ſelf defence form themſelves into a kind of community, and take joint meaſures for ſaving themſelves, which they commonly do by flight, and that they may not be ſurprized by the enemy, they ſet watches, and havecom-