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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 3

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: 0.87.

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The machine reads it as

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  4. Wvhose
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  6. Omes a
  7. votrae
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  9. to bc
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  12. Men,
  13. enely co
  14. Proper-
  15. S have
  16. Reaton
  17. deas Ot
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  19. ly oire
  20. ver FOr
  21. onceire,
  22. nOT
  23. et sacural velis
  24. nor our Imaginacions torm an Idea ot an
  25. unlimiced or boundlels Ouantier. We
  26. may indecd improve cicher oF chele F’acul-
  27. ties, by Scudy and Industry (0 Far, 25 10
  28. beable eo reach Hcighes chac may seem
  29. surprilins co chole thac do noc apply chem.
  30. selres eo such Macters; buc Aill chere are
  31. lome chines, co Wrhich We can never aC-
  32. cain, chere is a Non plus ultra, beyond wrhich
  33. alI is palpable Darkness, and prosonnd Ob.
  34. seuricys.
  35. S III. We may call finite, thac irhole
  36. Bounds or Cimits are siven; or chac wrhich
  37. is bounded on all Pollible Sides; infinite chae
  38. Wrhich is bounded or limiced no ray; chus
  39. a finite rishe Linc is chac, boch wrhose FX.
  40. cremicies are decermin d or given. An in-
  41. definite riohe Linc, chac, one ol Whole LX.
  42. cremicies is giren, buc noc che orher; ise.
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  44. infinice righe Linc, chac wrhich is boch ways
  45. indefinice, i. e. 2 Line wrich no Extremity aF
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  49. hends

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 3. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0443?run=74