Latin language -- Readers; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Picture books for children
A _Light_ inaccessible;
and yet all in all.
_Lux_ inaccessa;
& tamen omnia in omnibus.
Every where, and no where.
Ubique & nullibi.
The chiefest _Good_, and
the only and inexhausted
Fountain of all good things.
Summum _Bonum_, et
solus et inexhaustus
Fons omnium Bonorum.
As the _Creator_, so the
_Governour_ and _Preserver_
of all things, which we call
the _World_.
Ut _Creator_, ita
_Gubernator_ et _Conservator_
omnium rerum, quas vocamus
_Mundum_.
III.
The World.
Mundus.
[Illustration]
The _Heaven_, 1.
hath _Fire_, and _Stars_.
_Cœlum_, 1.
habet _Ignem_ & _Stellas_.
The _Clouds_, 2.
hang in the _Air_.
_Nubes_, 2.
pendent in _Aere_.
_Birds_, 3.
fly under the Clouds.
_Aves_, 3.
volant sub nubibus.
_Fishes_, 4.
swim in the _Water_.
_Pisces_, 4.
natant in _Aqua_.
The _Earth_ hath _Hills_, 5.
_Woods_, 6. _Fields_, 7.
_Beasts_, 8. and _Men_, 9.
_Terra_ habet _Montes_, 5.
_Sylvas_, 6. _Campos_, 7.
_Animalia_, 8. _Homines_, 9.
Thus the greatest _Bodies_
of the World,
the four _Elements_,
are full of
their own Inhabitants.
Ita maxima _Corpora_
Mundi,
quatuor _Elementa_,
sunt plena
Habitatoribus suis.
IV.
The Heaven.
Cœlum.
[Illustration]
_The Heaven_, 1.
is wheeled about, and
encompasseth the _Earth_, 2.
standing in the middle.
_Cœlum_, 1.
rotatur, &
ambit _Terram_, 2.
stantem in medio.
The _Sun_, 3.
wheresoever it is,
shineth perpetually,
howsoever dark _Clouds_, 4.
may take it from us;
_Sol_, 3.
ubi ubi est,
fulget perpetuo,
ut ut _densa Nubila_, 4.
eripiant eum a nobis;
and causeth by his _Rays_, 5.
_Light_, and the Light, _Day_.
facitque suis _Radiis_, 5.
_Lucem_, Lux _Diem_.
On the other side, over against it,
is _Darkness_, 6.
and thence _Night_.
Ex opposito,
sunt _Tenebræ_, 6.
inde _Nox_.
In the Night
shineth the _Moon_, 7.
and the _Stars_, 8.
glister and twinkle.
Nocte
splendet _Luna_, 7.
& _Stellæ_, 8.
micant, scintillant.
In the Evening, 9.
is _Twilight_:
Vesperi, 9.
est _Crepusculum_:
In the _Morning_, 10.
the breaking,
and dawning of the Day.
Manè
Aurora, 10.
& Diluculum.
V.
Fire.
Ignis.
[Illustration]
The _Fire_ gloweth, burneth
and consumeth to ashes.
_Ignis_ ardet, urit,
cremat.
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