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Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby
(1673)
[Kircher appendix] Part I. Chap. I. The cause and occasion of this work., pp. 319-322
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319 A NP PP E NDI X: 6a" Remarks TAKEN.AT LARGE OUT OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S uof China. PART I. CHAP. I. The Caufe and Occafiom of this wVor,, T is now about thirty years fince I produc'd the Expo. lition of a certain yro-.Clntnfan Monument, toun Cbinain the Year 1625. which although it gain' fmalU Applaufe among the Readers of a more t drdinary Apprehenfion, who were taken with Novelty, yet there were not wanting fome incon tent Cenfurers or Criticks, who ceafed not to wo its Reputation by fnarling and trifling Objeai - & Y - Ch flabbing it with critical Steletto's, albeit they prov'd in the fequel leaden blunted, Viz. That there was never any Monument of fuch a kind in Nat and that therefore it was a meer Forgery. This they endeavor'd by means pofaible, not only to perfuade themfelves to believe, but alfo to ra like Credulity in others, Thefe and the like Perfons are defervedly, ought to be efteem'd for fuch, who rejeing all Divine and Humane Faith prove of nothing but what they have feen themfelves, account nothing t( believ'd but what their own Brain hath ditated to them. 'Thefe aye they like troublefom Flefh-Flies, flying at any obvious fatnefs, foil that whic fincere and untainted, and dcfiftnot to befpot that which is pure with a de
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