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govern, and may furnifli probable conje6lures for two 
.or three days to come. To what I have already ad- 
vanced in fupport of this opinion, I fliall only add the 
laft lines of the of aratus. They fpeakthe 
fentiments of the earlieft ages moll decilively, as they 
fliew how little the dodlrine of the influence of lunar 
afpe6l had gained ground, even in his days, among prac- 
tical writers. That elegant verlifier, there is little room 
to doubt, delivers the pra6lical maxims of his time, juft 
as he received them. He was too little of a poet to dif- 
guife the truth with ornamental fi6tion, and too little of 
aphilofopher to adulterate it with hypothelis. 
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