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BoiiThe European region of Bohemia most likely derives its name from the early Celtic or Germanic (the jury is still out on this) people known as the Boii.Historians in the 19th and earlier 20th centuries also sometimes linked the Boii to the origins of the Bavarians, (Lat. Baioari), although that particular link is seldom accepted today. Despite the derivation of the name, the ancient Boii should neither be confused with the inhabitants of what it now the modern state of Bavaria in Germany, nor those of Bohemia in Czechia. By the 9th century, the Boii had become a distinct people from the Bavarians, whose rulers and leading families were in fact Franks. An argument can be made for an early intermixing with Etruscans from Italy; however, the same argument can also be made for the Celtic tribes in any area they inhabited. And find in man.html">man a master and a friend.html">friend;
A moral world, that well demands our view.
These neighbouring volumes reason.html">reason on the mind;
With knowledge;--man, poor, ignorant, and rude;
And all its cares, and all its comforts, tell:
At little price, the wisdom.html">wisdom of the wise;
Without the cares and dangers of the great,
What wisdom, wealth, and poverty bestow;
And how contending passions urge mankind:
Some, lured by vice, indulge the low desire;
The guilty chase, now keep the good.html">good in view;
They lead a puzzled, vex'd, uncertain life.html">life;
Which transient virtue seeks to cure in vain.
New interests draw, new principles control:
But here the tortured body finds relief;
Her subtile gin, that not a fly escapes!
Pile above pile her learned works abound:
To war with death, and stop his flying dart;
And life's short lease on easier terms renew;
To heal the tortures of imploring pain;
To ease the victim no device can save,
But man, who knows no good unmix'd and pure,
For grave deceivers lodge their labours here,
Scourges for sin, the solemn tribe are sent;
But storms subside, and fires forget to rage.
'Tis not enough that each terrific hand
But train'd to ill.html">ill, and harden'd by its crimes,
Say, ye, who search these records of the dead-
Can all the real knowledge ye possess,
Atone for each impostor's wild mistakes,
What thought so wild, what airy dream so light,
What art so prevalent, what proof so strong,
One in the solids finds each lurking ill,
A learned friend some subtler reason brings,
The subtile nerves, that shun the doctor's eye,
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