The Garden of the Mind

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story of the first world, and all circumstances are presented here for instructionDutch: "leeringe." This refers to moral or spiritual edification or a specific lesson intended for the reader., both from reflections and considerations, as well as from the sequence of the HistoriesDutch: "Historien." In this period, the term referred to narrative accounts or chronological stories found in historical and biblical texts., which are made known to us in the Bible and also partly from other ancient writers. And if anyone should think that one has gone a bit too far here, they shall know that it is a common manner of practice that when one wishes to present any matter for instruction, one expands it as much as possible through the consideration of circumstances: just as one sees that Preachers, RhetoriciansDutch: "Rethorizinen." These were members of the "Rederijkerskamers" or Chambers of Rhetoric, influential literary social groups in the Netherlands that specialized in poetry and drama., Poets, and Painters do their very best to present the matter they have before them vividly, and to impress it upon the heart through the circumstances;