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# Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53)
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(0 nicelr Fram d in all the infinite possible
Varieties over and under, aS EO reprC-
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erue and real Magniindes, and this re are
certain of by our other senles, ertirctu
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ac d due Distance, are ot the lame reat
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ve HnO FrOM the LaS ot Opticks
that had the Retina been remor d Farther
From, or brouche nearer the Christallin
Tlumor, or (Keepine che Retina ac che
Tame Distance From that Flumor) had ic
consisted oF ero Segments ot a lels or
sreater Sphere, the Vision had been in-
distinet or none ac all; or had the Di-
Ctance
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