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32. Multis timere debet, quern multi timent. 



He of whom many are afraid, ought himself to fear 

 many. 



33. Nulla tarn bona est fortuna, de qua nil possis queri. 

 There is no fortune so good but it bates an ace. 



34. Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si bene neges. 



It is part of the gift, if you deny genteelly what is asked 

 of you. 



35. Timidus vocat se cautum, parcum sordidus. 



The coward calls himself a wary man, and the miser says 

 he is frugal. 



36. O vita ! misero longa, felici brevis. 



INQUISITION OF THE CONVERSIONS 

 OF BODIES. 



TRANSLATED BY A. BLAIR, ESQ. 1830. 



Inquisition of the Conversions, Transmutations, Multiplica 

 tions, and Productions of Bodies. 



EARTH, by fire, is converted into bricks, which are of the 

 nature of stones, and which we use for building, like stones. 

 So with tiles. 



Naphtha, which was that bituminous cement, wherewith 

 the walls of Babylon were built, by time acquires exceed 

 ingly great hardness and firmness, equal to stone. 



In clayey lands, where are pebbles and gravel, you shall 

 find huge stones, concreted of pebbles and gravel, with 

 stony matter interposed, as hard, or truly harder, than the 

 pebbles themselves. 



There are certain springs of water, wherein if you im 

 merse wood, it shall be turned into the nature of stone ; so 

 as that the part sunk in the water shall become stone, the 

 part above the water shall remain wood. 



The viscous matter about the kidneys and bladder, in the 

 human body, is converted into a pebble or stony matter, 

 A stone, also, is often found in the gall-bladder ; and some 

 times, but this is most rare, in the vena porta. 



