Cause, principle and unity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Addressed to the most illustrious Monsieur Michel de Castelnau Seigneur of Mauvissière, Concressault, and Joinville, Chevalier of the Order of the most Christian King, Counsellor of his Privy Council, Captain of fifty men at arms and Ambassador to the most serene Queen of England.
Most illustrious and honoured Chevalier, if I consider with an appreciative eye the forbearance, perseverance and solicitude with which, adding favour on favour, benefit on benefit, you have bound, obliged, and tied me to you, and with which you are wont to prevail over every hardship, elude all sort of peril, and successfully conclude all your most worthy designs, I cannot but note how very appropriate is that noble device which adorns your terrible crest. On it a liquid humour sweetly strikes, with its constant and continual drip, and, by force of perseverance, softens, hollows, breaks, smooths and conquers a firm, solid, rugged and harsh rock.
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- Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and UnityAnd Essays on Magic, pp. 1 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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