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Excerpt from Funeral Oration on the Death of Joseph Scaliger: Delivered in the Hall of Theology of the University of Leyden, Immediately After the Obsequies, 25 January, 1609; Translated Into English for the First Time, From the First Edition, Ex Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1608
In the nineteenth year of his age he went to Paris, and in that city he bound his spirit by a most audacious vow. For perceiving that the sciences have certain metes and bounds, but judging it to be the mark of a narrow spirit to tarry within a single science, first.
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