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with the Principles of true Philofophy, and of fuch dangerous ten- 

 dency, that, if I have failed in giving a better account of them, I 

 fincerely wifh, both for the honour of Sir Ifaac and the nation, 

 and, I may add, of modern times, that fome author, more learned 

 in Geometry and Mechanics, would undertake to give a better ex- 

 planation of them. 



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