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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
# Folio 57, page id 797370323:0215
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Body to more in an Orbit or any curve
Line of itlelF, becaule at every different
Point it must change its direction; and to
suppole a Body capable ot changins its
direction ac every different point oF its
Course, is to suppole it to hare Realon
and Discretion. And fince to move in an
Orbit Or any curve Linc is to more with
a Motion compounded of crro other Mo.
tions, onc of rrhich at least must have
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different Cate trom irhat ic ras in, atter
that other Motion mas impressd. S0 that
lince che Planets do revolve in Orbits Or
curve Lines, it is plain ches hare HOE FOF
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