📓 Excerpt from Q. Horatii Flacci CarminaMors Ruardii, quamquam non immatura, omnibus tumen, qui eum carum habuerunt, accidit acerba. Paucorum annorum ac. Cessio non illum facere potuisset beatiorem: nam patriam indigna tyrannide liberatam, et discordias civiles primum sopitas, mex reditu gentis Nassavicae exstinctas vìderat: erant tamen, quae candidam animam laetitia extulissent. Vel isturn vitae cursum, quem, restituto nomine Hollando, semel petitum, continuo reti unisti, qua mente, quibus verbis et oculis faisset prosecutus! Nam animo votisque suis reipublicae te destinabat, non quod nobili genere et in Spem honorum natus esses; neque enim ille genus et prouvas et quae non ficimus ipsi, nostra. Vocabat; sed eam in te naturam illud studium inesse conspiciebat, ut utilissimum pa triae civem, si per tempora liceret, augu'raretur. Huins autem utilitatis partem in amore ao praesidìo literarum disciplinarum que reponebat, in quibus colendis ipse consenuerat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfe...