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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81938	Geographia universalis: the present state of the whole world giving an account of the several religions, customs, and riches of each people; the strength and government of each polity and state; the curious and most remarkable things in every region; with other particulars necessary to the understanding history and the interests of princes. Written originally by the Sieur Duval, Geographer in Ordinary to the French King; and made English, and enlarged by Ferrand Spence.	Duval, P. (Pierre), 1619-1682.; Spence, Ferrand.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2919A; ESTC R229216	199,644	399

Geographia Vniversalis THE Present State Of the Whole WORLD GIVING An ACCOUNT of the several Religions Customs and Riches of each People The Strength and Government of each Polity and State The Curious and most Remarkable Things in every Region With other Particulars necessary to the understanding History and the Interest of Princes Written Originally by the SIEVR DVVAL Geographer in Ordinary to the French King And made English and Enlarged By FERRAND SPENCE Venient annis Soecula seris quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet ingens Pateat Tellus Tiphysque novos Detegat Orbes nec sit terris Vltima Thule Senec. Tragaed Med. v. 374. London Printed by H. Clark for F. Pearse at the Blew Anchor at the west-West-end of St. Pauls 1685. John Ward of Capesthorne in the County of Cheshire Esq and of the Inner Temple 1704 To the Honourable Edward Coke Esq SIR ONE of the Principal Designs of most Dedications inscrib'd to Men of Eminence and Condition is the imploring their Patronage and Protection This the Authors ever pretend and add that their Books being to travel in a wide and censorious World do want a Passport from some Grea Name which may defend them from the arrogance and obloquy of Criticks a sort of Men that are born to be the Scourges of Mankind in all Ages and therefore ought either to be tied up by the Publick Magistrate or awed down by Persons of Celsitude and Honour so that if Hobbs his State of Nature awakens and kicks-up in 'em they may vent all their Malignity on the Dust without any Noise of their own or the Hearing of others They pretend that the least Trifles and Dwarflings of Wit are most mightily safe and secure provided they have but kindly and favourable Patrons And to hear at what rate they talk a Man would say that those glorious and adorable Personages whom they with so much Religion invoke and to whom they so devoutly consecrate their Labours have either the Will or the Power to give Estimation to such things as by no means deserve it as if like Deities they cou'd Create something out of nothing and the Merits of one Man cou'd be transferr'd upon another This Custom SIR I shall not follow tho' I have so much good Company it being bottom'd upon a very Chimerical Foundation but shall leave the Book and its Author to shift for themselves as well as they can Yet even this Amusement is superseded by their having done so already For Both of 'em have for some Years stood the Test of France and as it has been the Happiness of the Author to be applauded● and preferr'd by that Great-Prince for his profound Skill and Knowledge in these no less pleasurable than useful Studies of Geography so hath his Book been Universally receiv'd and Unanimously approv'd by the learned part of that King's Subjects as it appears by the repeated Editions of this Work in the Original As to my share in it that am only the Englisher I can pretend to nothing of Merit but only that of Translating it Faithfully It is a Subject made more for Vse than Ostentation and serves rather to the Information than Divertisement of Humane Life Here are none of the Heroick Flights of Eloquence nor the more Delicate Curiosities of Wit But the Words both are and ought to be as plain and un-metaphorical as those in the last Confession of a Dying Man Wou'd it not be an horrid absurd and amasing Spectre Sir to see a Fellow when he is rea to Expire use either a starch'd Eloquence or Nice Witticisms when he was to draw all the Lineaments of his Soul to shew the several risings and tumours of his Passions and consequently his Vices depending thereon to discover all the Deformities and let the By-standers guess at the Landskip of his Vertues and in one word when he was to write or dictate the whole Geography of his Mind The same thing holds good in this kind of Knowledges They must be drawn as Naked as Truth or Nature Otherwise Poetry wou'd Commence Geography and this Globe of Earth wou'd be like a Castle in the Air not only in its local Hanging but its real Existence But tho' the Argument does not admit of much Verbal Ornament yet it carries a great deal of Delight along with it which arising from the things themselves most undoubtedly is much more real steady and substantial than what derives its Origine from Words Here we are only tickl'd but there a solid Joy runs through the whole Circle of Blood which keeps it warm a good while afterwards By the former we are put peradventure into a small sort of Ecstacy but we are flush'd and transfix'd by the later The First slackens and relaxes the Mind but the Second enlarges it and fills it up And to instance in the Studies under my hands when we take a Prospect of the several Scenes of this Globe of its different Soils and Climates of its various Kingdoms and Nations of their respective Arts and Policies of their divers Religions and Devotions tho' all this be describ'd without any Rhetorical Paint and Fucus it must needs both extremely divert and sate the widest Capacities of our Souls not only upon account of the Nature of the Things themselves but likewise of their admirable Variety And for my part I am unable to express the mighty Satisfaction I took two Years ago when I ran this thing over with my Pen only to settle these Notices in my Mind It is my Opinion SIR that our Minds stand in need of as much Nutriment as our Bodies As we are perpetually recruiting the latter so we must be always refreshing the former and not let it by continual Expiration either grow Empty or be harrass'd by Famine Men are not to imitate their Methods in furnishing their Houses while they lay out so much in adorning all their lower Rooms but the Garret is either Empty or fill'd with Rubbish Yet it is generally seen that when Men have got some small stock and smattering of Learning there they stick and proceed no further they have already enough for common Conversation and talk the rest by hints and guesses not considering that so frail is the Mind and Memory of Man that even that knowledge runs through it as through a perforated Vessel and they must imitate the Danaides in their Labour tho' they do not in the vanity of their Labour for in the sifting of Letters as in other things tho' the greater part passes through yet what 's fine remains and the more it 's sifted the finer and richer it is But those Queis arte Benigna Et meliore luto finxit praecordia Titan tho' they have less Necessity yet take more Care about this Repletive Faculty as I may call it and as what Aliment enters the Stomach turns gradually into Chyle and Blood and Animal Spirits so they refine more and more the Notices that come into the Brain and Conversation the