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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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Cituce a Stonc, a Trec, a B0ok and the
likce sensible Things; Wtuch as ther arc
plealins or dilasrecable excite che PaNI-
ons of Lore, Flatred, JOr, Ciriet, _c.
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memberiis, oc. aboucthem. This Per-
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