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Thefe two miftakes, I hope, the reader will pardon, as not pro- 

 ceeding from any intention, either lo difparage Sir Ifaac Newton, or 

 to magnify myfelf, but from ignorance of fad:s, which I have fmce 

 accidentally dilcovered, when I was looking for a thing quite dif- 

 ferent. 



notion, that a Body may be continued to be moved by virtue of an impulfe that has 

 ceafed thoufands of years ago, upon which ground fome of the Newtonians are 2t 

 prefent inclined to- defend Sir Ifaac's Axiom, it is a nption that, I will venture to 

 fay, never entered into the head of any philofopher, antient or modern, not even of 

 Sir Ifaac himfelf, till now it is taken up to defend a caufe which, I think, is quite 

 defperate. 



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