Boyle, Robert
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New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects
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1660
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to propoſe Objections againſt theſe, as
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well as againſt what has been repreſented
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in favor of the contrary Doctrine; yet
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having already almoſt tyr'd my ſelf, and
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I fear more then almoſt tyr'd Your Lord
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ſhip with ſo troubleſome an Enquiry af
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ter the Nature of bubbles, I ſhall wil
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lingly leave Your Lordſhip to judge of
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the Arguments alledged on either ſide,
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and I ſhould ſcarce have ventur'd to enter
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tain You ſo long concerning ſuch empty
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things as the Bubbles, which have occa
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ſion'd all this Diſcourſe, but that I am
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willing to invite You to take notice with
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me of the obſcurity of things, or the dim
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neſs of our created Intellects (which yet
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of late too many ſo far preſume upon, as
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either to Deny or Cenſure the Almighty
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and Omniſcient Creator himſelf) and to
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learn hence this Leſſon, That there are
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