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beginning of this enterprife : And that even 

 to a degree beyond what I expefted, and as 

 far as I could wifh — Infomuch that now I 

 am not the leaft difcouraged, if after the 

 deftrudtion of the ramufcuH before menti- 

 oned, fome fmall protrufions of like kind 

 do proceed becaufe their tender exiftences 

 are very eafily put an end to, by a fubfe- 

 quent practice. A full account of which I 

 fliall refer ve for the next Chapter ; that I 

 may in the interim endeavour to prepare the 

 way better to that, and fome other propofi- 

 tions. 



And firft if for the fake of carping, fome 

 of the fayings of the ancients are brought 

 in objedtion to effays of this kind ; as that 

 nature is of her felf moft wife — Again, that 

 nature always does what is beft — Sentences, ; 

 which owe their fignification and ftrength'to 

 referved meanings ! Then why do we prune 

 our vines, or graft the wilding fruit ? Cicer&' 

 at leaft underftood thofe words in no oppo- 

 nent fenfe hereto, as he has faid— 



Natura nihil omni ex parteperfeBumexpolinjif. 



Altho' Lthink our Bifiop of Cloyne has more 



juftly 



