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his renown as brilliant as that of any one who has 

 ever cultivated physical science. The overthrow of the 

 Phlogiston Theory, and the happy generalizations upon 

 the combinations of bodies, which we owe to his genius 

 for philosophical research, are sufficient to place him 

 among the" first, perhaps to make him be regarded as the 

 first reformer of chemical science, the principal founder 

 of that magnificent fabric which now fills so ample a 

 space in the eye of every student of nature. 



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