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BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
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They bore the wounded aga on their shields to his chariot Desunt non-nulla

Then Aristotle, observing Bacon advance with a furious mien, drew his bow to the head, and let fly his arrow, which missed the valiant Modern and went hizzing over his head, but Descartes it hit: the steel point quickly found a defect in his head-piece: it pierced the leather and the pasteboard, and went in at his right eye. The torture of the pain whirled the valiant bowman round, till death, like a star of superior influence, drew him into his own vortex. *Ingens hia-tus hic in MS.* when Homer appeared at the head of the cavalry, mounted on a furious horse, with difficulty managed by the rider himself, but which no other mortal durst