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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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 Of the Principles
Part I
5 83. Again, Whecher there b0, Or b0
HOt External Things, it is aorced on all
hands, chac the PrOver DCC OF WVords.
15 che markins our Conceptions, Or
Phings ontr as ther arc Known and Per-
ceird by us; Whence ut plaintr Collons,
that in che Penents re hare laid donn.
there is nochinq inconsittent with the
rishut Dle and Signiticaner ot Lanouare
and that Discourle ot irhat kind soerer
(0 Far as IC is Intellisible, remains Vn
dicturb d. But aHI chis scems (0 very
manifest, from wrhrac hath been largely
sec Forch in chc Premisco, thac it is necd
lels to insist anr tarther on it.
5 84. But ic Will be uro d, chac Ni-
racles do, at lcast, lose much oF their
Strels and Tmpori, by oue Principles.
WVhac ust Wre chint oF MosesS ROd,
Wras it not really curn d into a Scrpene
Or Wras there ontr a Chanse ot Ideas in
che Minds ot the SpeCtatOrS: And can
it be supposed, that our Sariour did no
more at cheMarriage- Lcalt in Cana, than
impose onthe Sishe, and Smell, and Talte