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from our unpublifhed Dialogue of the 

 Requifites of a good Hypothecs I (ball 

 add D that a Chymift that fhould pre- 

 tend,that becaufe his three Principle; 

 are as many as thofe of the Corpus 

 cularianspthey are as fufficient as rhefe 

 to give an account of the Book of 

 Nature , methinks I fay., he would 

 do like a man that (hculd pretend, 

 that with four and twenty words he 

 would make up a language as well as 

 others can with ihe four and twenty 

 Letters of the Alphabet., becaufe he 

 had as many words already formed, 

 as they had of bare Letters; not con- 

 sidering that inftead of the (mall 

 number of variations that can be 

 made of his words by Prepcfitions 

 and TerminationSjthe Letters of the 

 Alphabet being varioufly combined, 

 placed and reiterated, can be eafily 

 made to compofe not only his four 

 and twenty words, with their variati- 

 ons^ but as many others as a whole 

 language contains. 



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