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Tality, by thus promoting to the utmofl the Caufe of 
Science, in which they were, under his Prote&ion, 
■embarked. 
Gifts like thefe, unfolicited and unconditionally 
bellowed, might have fatisfied the Impulfes even of a 
Princely Munificence ; but not fo with our Royal 
Patron. Amply informed in every Branch of real 
Knowledge, He refolved to bellow a {till more diftin- 
guifhed Mark of his Favor on Science which he 
loved, and in this his lad bed Gift has fulfilled his 
Royal Refolution. 
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Such a Donation, fo fuited to our prefent profper- 
ous and flourifiiing Condition under his Royal Pa- 
tronage and Prote&ion, is admirably calculated to 
increafe the Refpect, great as it is, which ye have ever 
received from the Learned of all Europe, placing 
you at once, in every Point of fplendid Accommoda- 
tion, as much above all Foreign Academies, as the 
Labors of your learned Predeceffors had raifed you 
above them in literary Reputation. 
Let 
