52 Of Examining Ob jects, 
Creation, which otherwife would be fpent 
in tirelome Idlenefs, or, perhaps, fome fa- 
fhionable and expenfive Vice, I fhall think 
thefe Sheets very happily bellowed. 
CHAP. XIII. 
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Of Examinmg Objects. 
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A N Examination of Objects, in order to 
difcover Truth, requires a great deal 
of Attention, Care, and Patience, together 
with fome confiderable Skill and Dexterity 
(to be acquired by Practice chiefly) in the 
preparing, managing, and applying them to 
the Microfcope, What little Knowledge 
in thefe Matters I may have gained, either 
from the Accounts of others, or my own 
Experience, after being converfant many 
Years therein, I fhall readily communicate: 
in hopes my Pains may clear the Way to 
Difcoveries that will prove of Confequence 
to the World, and render this Study both 
defirable and eafy. 
When any Objedt comes to be examined, 
the Size, the Contexture, and Nature of it 
fhould be duly confidered ; in order to apply 
it to fuch Glaffes, and in fuch a Manner, as 
may fhew it bell. The firfl Step towards 
this conflantly fhould he ? to view it through 
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