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nlons, and perhaps branded with In- 

 famy, under a Pretence of his attach- 

 ing himfelf to the Study of the Magic 

 Art, Indeed, numberlefs were the 

 Obftacles to the Refurredlion of Learn- 

 ing ; a dark Ignorance, a blind Infa- 

 tuation, an obftinate Prejudice : Yet 

 fo hard a Matter is it to fetter* the 

 human Mind, that it rofe fuperior to 

 all Difficulties. Literature is once 

 more recovered from its long Swoon, 

 and now fhines in its priftine Luftre : 

 Nay, there are in thefe our happy 

 Times many Things generally known, 

 of which the Ancients had not the 

 leaft Notion ^ and many others by 

 them only gueffed at, or known in 

 Theory, which we have reduced to a 

 mathematical Certainty. 



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