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of the work, before any part of it could have 
been committed to the prefs. 
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work, now published, under its aufpices, ex¬ 
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portance of the feveral memoirs which it con¬ 
tains. Refponfibility concerning the truth of 
fafrs, the foundnefs of reafoning, or the accuracy 
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