Funeral Oration On the Death of Joseph Scaliger

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Theologians, lawyers, physicians, but espe- cially those acquainted with the best Hterature, ap- plauded vehemently, clung to him, and seemed unable to praise him enough, either for their own satisfaction or for his deserts. Some called him " bottomless pit of erudition, " others " sea of sciences "; some " the sun of the learned, " others " the divine offspring of a divine father, " others " the child of the gods "; some " perpetual dictator of letters, " others " the greatest work and miracle... of nature, " some " nature's last effort, " some one thing, some another: whose selected testimonies, in concise form, we shall publish together, that the jealous may perceive the unanimity of the learned. At last, by too great merit, and, as he himself judged, by the immoderate praises of others, he began ' See Bernays, Scaliger, pp. 239, 284. ' I have not yet found this translation.
8 DANIEL HEINSIUS to earn the dislike of the wicked. But indeed, — let them rage, let them be angry, let them mingle heaven and earth, the ignorant who know not to judge of such great erudition, or the malevolent who cannot bear it, — he has left no more certain mark of his merit than envy.


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