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having no Coherence, but the coupling Particles, looketh like a perfect Skeleton tacked together with Wires, staring hollow, stiff and horrid, stripped of Sense, without Nerves and Sinews, Life and Motion.

I will trouble Your Lordship no longer upon this Subject, and if I have said any Thing to secure You against the Impressions of this poor Sort of Learning, I only intended a necessary Caution, and if ever these Sheets become more Publick, I hope no truly learned Man will be offended; I am sure, I am very far from having any mean Thoughts of those great Men who preside in our

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