Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head5" xml:space="preserve">The Au
            <emph style="sc">THOR’S</emph>
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          PREFACE.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s37" xml:space="preserve">THE Reader will wonder, per-
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            haps, to find me entring into
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            a Path, which ſeems to have
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            been too much trodden already;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s38" xml:space="preserve">and eſteem as uſeleſs a New
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            Eſſay, on an Art, whoſe Sub-
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            ject (one would think) ſhould have been
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            long before this Time exhauſted; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s39" xml:space="preserve">ſince there
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            have been ſo many Perſons, who have writ-
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            ten on the ſame.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s41" xml:space="preserve">The Name of Perſpective now ſeems to
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            ſound unple aſant in the Ears of the Publick
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            Enemies of Repetition; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s42" xml:space="preserve">and it may be look d
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            upon as a Piece of Inadvertency, to venture
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            to treat again on that ſame Subject. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s43" xml:space="preserve">Yet,
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            notwithst anding this, I deſire the Render to
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            ſuſpend his Cenſure, until he h{as} heard </s>
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