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gravity was 16.13. This was melted in the 

 furnace which drew the ftrongett, as were all 

 the experiments from the fourteenth. The fuel 

 was placed only a little above the cover of the 

 crucible, and a vacancy between the draught- 

 hole being left, the fire v/as prevented from 

 being too intenfe. 



PROPOSiTroNTs refpe5ling the Foundation of Civil 

 Government -, by Thomas Cooper, Efq. 



READ*MARCH7, I787. 



I HAVE often thought that the natural 

 rights of mankind and the equitable princi- 

 ples of civil government, might be ftated fome- 

 whac more briefly than I have any where feen 

 them. With this view I have drawn up the fol- 

 lowing paper, containing the fubftance of many 

 important difcuflions concerning the great out- 

 lines of civil liberty. It is of great confequence 

 in my opinion, that a fubjed in which every 

 member of fociety is fo immediately interefted, 

 Ihould be treated if pofTible fo plainly as to be 

 generally underftood, and fo briefly as to be 



* The Paper on Phyfiognomy, by Thomas Cooper, 

 Bfq. already inferted_(page 408), was read at the Society, 

 Oftober 15, 1783. 



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