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OBSERVATIONS 
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PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 
ArTIcteE JI. 
Of the Laws of Motion; by the Honourable 
Henry Home, Efquire, one of the Senators 
of the College of Fufitce. 
a O thing has more perplexed philo- 
. N fophy, than an unlucky propenfity, 
_~ which makes us grafp at principles, 
without due regard to facts and experiments. 
Tho’ fond of knowledge, we are willing to 
: purchafe it at the eafieft rate ; and general 
4g principles delight us, becaufe they fhorten 
_ the road to knowledge. This bent of the 
_ mind is productive of manifold errors. Pre- 
_ -poffeffed once by a favourite principle, we are 
no longer open to conviction. Every phe- 
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