TO THE READER. 



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or supercilious, only stick close to whatever you are in your judgment 

 convinced is virtuous and becoming ; and consider this as your proper 

 station, assigned you by God, which you must not quit upon any terms. 

 And remember, that if you persevere in goodness, those very men, 

 who derided you at first, will afterwards turn your admirers : But if 

 you give way to their reproaches, and are vanquished by them, you 

 will then render yourself doubly, and most deservedly ridiculous." 



STANHOPE. 



Some men, like Lucian in religion, seek, by their wit, to traduce 

 " and expose useful things, because, to arrive at them, they converse 

 " with mean experiments ; but those who despise to be employed in 

 ordinary and common matters, never arrive at solid perfection in 

 " experimental knowledge." lord verulam. 



J.EVELYN. 



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