Chap. VI. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. J23 



Goodnefs of God, maiiifefted in the Syftem of the Univerfe, — a plea- 

 fure, which to him is an anticipation of the joys of Heaven. 

 The Stoics, therefore, when they enjoined us not to admire any- 

 thing, did not mean, or, at leaft, ought not to have meant, to for- 

 bid us this Admiration : The Admiration they forbid us is of 

 fuch things as Horace mentions, Wealth, and Power, and popular 

 Applaufe; though it muft be confefTed, that the precept is exprefled 

 in too general terms, when we are defired 



Nil admirari 



But the philofophy of this epiftle of Horace is altogether Stoical ; 

 and the precepts of that philofophy, as is well known, carried things 

 much farther than their natural and juft bounds. 



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