Thelonious Monk
May 7, 2026 at 12:39:08 AM
OWING perhaps to the circumstance that the indispensable “Baedecker”
accords only a three or four line notice to the “Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal” –
but few English or American visitors to Paris are acquainted with its name,
situation, or contents, though nearly all know at least by sight the “Bibliothèque<br>Nationale” and the “Bibliothèque Mazarin”
Est quidem huiuscemodi ars rerum prosequendarum in genere discursiua architectura; & habitus quidam ratiocinantis animæ, ab eo quod est mundi vitæ principio, ad omnium atque singulorum se exporrigens vitæ principium. Nulli de potentiis ipsius tanquam ramo innixus, neque de peculiari quadam emergens facultate: sed ipsum totius stipitem vtpoté ipsam animæ totius incolens essentiam. Quod non ab re dictum existimarim: si quippé in memoratiua potentia consisteret: quomodo effunderet ab intellectu? si in intellectiua: quomodo é memoria, sensu, & appetitu transmitteret? Porró per ipsam regulamur & dirigimur, ad intelligendum, discurrendum, memorandum, phantasiandum, appetendum, & quandoque vt volumus sentiendum.