Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head4" style="it" xml:space="preserve">TO
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          Mr. William Kent.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s26" xml:space="preserve">IN Dedicating this
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            Tranſlation to you,
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            I have deſignedly
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            deviated from the general
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            Cuſtom obſerv’d by almoſt
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            all Dedicators, who make
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            choice of ſuch Patrons that
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            are Great and Rich, not at all
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            conſidering their Merit, or
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            whether they underſtand any
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            thing of what is offer’d to
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            them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s27" xml:space="preserve">ſince I have inſcrib’d
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            this Treatiſe of Perſpective to
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            one, whoſe daily Practice is
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            the very Art it ſelf, and </s>
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