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determination of time. The Tranflator 

 dares not to flatter himfelf with the 

 beUef, that the enthufiafm of the Reader 

 of this Verfion is to keep pace with his 

 own admiration of the Original ; but if 

 he may judge of the general mind from 

 the fentiments occafionally exprefTed, by 

 perfons of various defcriptions, and of 

 both fexes, to whom a confiderable part 

 of the Book was fubmitted, in the pro- 

 grefs of Tranflation, he is not deftitute 

 of hope that it may excite fomething of 

 that interefl, and produce a part of that 

 effeâ, in England, which have attended 

 the feveral French Editions. 



Samt-PieîTe, Frenchman as he ar- 

 dently profefles himfelf to be, omits no 

 occaiion to do juftice to the Englifh 

 Charar5ler. If he combats an agrono- 

 mical Theory of our defervedly boafted 

 ■Newton^ he befto ws unreferved praife 



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