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One will be charm'd wich the inflrudion whrch all 
the World fliall receive from a great many Difcoverie^ 
be makes there, and the explication he gives of rhe^old. 
ones. 
Though there paft no part of his Life without doing 
fomething important and confiderable, yet it wasbuc 
little in comparifon of what he defign'd to put in execu- 
tion when he fliould be permitted to return to his plea- 
fant Country-houfe. For he purpoftd to difled Stones, 
as being the moft fimple of living Beings as alfo all the 
Liquors of our Bodies. There was ground alfo to hope, 
that he would Publifli for the great good of the Publick, 
his Praftice of Phyfick ftch as might be gather'd from 
his Confultations, put iq order. 
But by misfortune the envious Deftiny, which fuffers 
iqtire to a great Old Age the barren grouth of fome 
Men, did not fpare the Corn Mdpighms, which was 
not yet come to its pei^feft ripenefs. It happens alfo, 
that (bme ignorant People have life enough, who are 
not given to Meditation ; and that on the contrary, 
Learned Men have their Days fliorteo'd, their excellent 
Thoughts not having time to come to maturity. 
But may not I without injuftice accufe this Age, which 
is now drawing to a Period, of this death; and which 
not being content to rob us of the Galilee's^ Harveys^ 
Des Cartes^ the P^cquetSr and the Bartholines^ would 
alfo take from,us this Famous Malpighi^ not fo much 
through fear, left the fucceeding Ages ftould enjoy fo 
great a Man, as through ambition cf putting an end to 
his Life by Death, and gracing .it with Fame,. 
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