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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 187

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.88.

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The machine reads it as

  1. For che
  2. visation.
  3. by our
  4. Caules,
  5. le usetul
  6. pecuotuy
  7. Y delighe
  8. Thus we
  9. untighes
  10. acc 10
  11. decessiries
  12. a very est
  13. hai prin
  14. The ferr
  15. Eluids, in
  16. COMPOU.
  17. umbertes5.
  18. THC
  19. e
  20. DE Satur
  21. The primary onesare only Tour, viz. Air-
  22. Water, Mercuryand Lieht; threc of whick
  23. are buc seldom much componnded rith
  24. Others, Po that it is NV acer alonc, Or Lymph.
  25. that is the Basis oF aII our MixtureS, and
  26. ic is thc parts of Polid Bodies Aoatins in
  27. ehis Fluid, that produces all our deliehe.
  28. Fut and usctul varieties oF LiguOrS; (0
  29. Frugal is Nature in Principles, and (0
  30. Fruittul and various in Ffects and Com
  31. positions. 2. The oreat Difference BC-
  32. ercen the specifick Gravicies oF our Fluids,
  33. Nercury Being about 8000 times heavier
  34. than Air. Nor noc to mention che ma-
  35. ny ales oF ehis last Fluid in ArEIHCerS
  36. Vorks, had sir been as heavy as Mercury.
  37. it had been altogether useleso in respirati.
  38. on: on the contrarr, ic had choakced us
  39. immediately; and tad cherc noc been a
  40. Fluid oF the Came weiohe wich Mercury
  41. 2. c. a collection ot exceeding (mall, vast.
  42. y heary Spherules, in the present Cir-
  43. cumstances of Mankind, Ldo noc Lnov
  44. irhac a preat part oF the WVorid vould have
  45. done.
  46. For the Lerdness and Debauch.
  47. ely

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 187. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0345?run=74