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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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are buc seldom much componnded rith
Others, Po that it is NV acer alonc, Or Lymph.
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ic is thc parts of Polid Bodies Aoatins in
ehis Fluid, that produces all our deliehe.
Fut and usctul varieties oF LiguOrS; (0
Frugal is Nature in Principles, and (0
Fruittul and various in Ffects and Com
positions. 2. The oreat Difference BC-
ercen the specifick Gravicies oF our Fluids,
Nercury Being about 8000 times heavier
than Air. Nor noc to mention che ma-
ny ales oF ehis last Fluid in ArEIHCerS
Vorks, had sir been as heavy as Mercury.
it had been altogether useleso in respirati.
on: on the contrarr, ic had choakced us
immediately; and tad cherc noc been a
Fluid oF the Came weiohe wich Mercury
2. c. a collection ot exceeding (mall, vast.
y heary Spherules, in the present Cir-
cumstances of Mankind, Ldo noc Lnov
irhac a preat part oF the WVorid vould have
done.
For the Lerdness and Debauch.
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